Study of the reaction of organomagnesium and organolithium compounds with carbonyl derivatives of barenes and neobarenes

Abstract

1. Tertiary barene alcohols are formed in a number of cases when barene ketones are reacted with methylmagnesium iodide. 2. Tertiary barene alcohols undergo cleavage at the C-C bond when treated with a catalytic amount of sodium alcoholate in alcohol. 3. Neobarene ketones when reacted with organomagnesium and organolithium compounds form tertiary neobarene alcohols. 4. Depending on the structure, organolithium and organomagnesium compounds react with barene aldehydes to give secondary alcohols, or else they reduce the aldehyde group to the alcohol group.