Coupure cathodique de liaisons carbone-oxygene—I reduction electrochimique d'alcools insatures application a la reduction tetraelectronique de certaines cetones en carbures

Abstract

Some unsaturated alcohols are reduced electrochemically on mercury at very negative potential values. For many of them, it has been shown that the carbon-oxygen bond is cleaved with formation of unsaturated hydrocarbons, in a two electron reaction. However, in some cases, there exists for the anion radical another possibility of reaction: protonation to form a saturated alcohol. When the protonation reaction is slow compared to the cleavage reaction, a direct method of electroreduction of ketones to hydrocarbons, through the intermediate alcohol, can be proposed.