The Preparation of Glycerophenylose Enedioldiacetate^*

The Many Chemists Who Could Have Proposed the Woodward‐Hoffmann Rules But Didn't: The Organic Chemists Who Knew of the Smoking Guns**

“…There were two Dauben brothers, both of whom were undergraduates at Ohio State University, both of whom did undergraduate research with William Lloyd Evans at Ohio State and published with him in the area of carbohydrate chemistry, [88,89] both of whom received their Ph.D. degree as organic chemists at Harvard University, and both of whom became academics at major research universities on the west coast of the United States. Hyp Dauben (Figure 12) studied with the physical organic chemist Paul D. Bartlett [87] (Left) "2:00 pm Your radio -I just heard that Kennedy (& Connolly) shot in car in Dallas."…”

The Reactions of Monomeric Styrenes.

“…presence of platinum oxide a, d-diacetoxystyrene yielded styrene glycol diacetate (156), and in the presence of platinum p-methoxy-a-ethoxystyrene yielded a-ethoxyethylanisole (583). Similarly in the presence of platinum oxide /3-diethylamino-, ß-piperidino-, ß-methylbenzylamino-, and /3-dibenzylamino-styrenes yielded the corresponding ethylbenzenes (470).…”

“…CbHbCHOHCHjOH of a, ß-diacetoxystyrene (from phenacyl bromide and potassium acetate in acetic anhydride) with hydrogen in the presence of platinum oxide gave the diacetate, which was hydrolyzed to styrene glycol with aqueous potassium carbonate (156). A 62 per cent yield of styrene glycol was reported to have been obtained by boiling a benzene solution of 2,5-diphenyl-1,4-dioxane with aqueous potassium hydroxide (447).…”

Preparation of Imidazole Derivatives via Bisfunctionalization of Alkynes Catalyzed by Ruthenium Carbonyl

“…Enediol dicarboxylates, -hydroxy ketones, or -ester ketone [1][2][3][4] are potential dihydroxy compounds that play important roles in the construction of heterocyclic compounds as useful organic synthetic blocks. 5,6 Many natural products and pharmacologically active molecules also have the enediol diacetate functional group.…”