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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Formation of Carbanions from Carboxylate Ions Bearing Electron-Withdrawing Groups via Photoinduced Decarboxylation: Addition of Generated Carbanions to Benzaldehyde

Yuta Kumagai A , Takashi Naoe A , Keisuke Nishikawa A , Kazuyuki Osaka A , Toshio Morita A and Yasuharu Yoshimi A B
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A Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan.

B Corresponding author. Email: yyoshimi@u-fukui.ac.jp

Australian Journal of Chemistry 68(11) 1668-1671 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH15115
Submitted: 9 March 2015  Accepted: 6 May 2015   Published: 25 May 2015

Abstract

The photoinduced decarboxylation of carboxylate ions bearing electron-withdrawing groups using biphenyl and 1,4-dicyanonaphthalene leads to the efficient generation of carbanions under mild conditions. The efficiency of the carbanion generation is strongly dependent on the single-electron transfer from the photogenerated radical anion of the electron-acceptor to the radical. In particular, the cyanomethyl anion formed using this photochemical method can be added to benzaldehydes to give the corresponding adducts.


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