
%0 Journal Article
%A Suga, K 
%A Watanabe, S 
%A Fujita, T 
%T The reaction of crotonic acid with ketones using lithium naphthalenide
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1972/11/01
%V 25
%N 11
%P 2393-2397
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9722393
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9722393 
%X Lithium naphthalenide reacts with crotonic acid in the presence of diethyl-amine to give the &#945;-anion of lithium crotonate. The reaction of this anion with various ketones gives the corresponding hydroxy acids in good yield. For example, from cyclohexanone and crotonic acid, &#969;-(1?-hydroxycyolohex-1'-yl)crotonic acid was obtained. 
