Carbonyl compounds efficiently catalyze the dehydrative 9-C-alkylation of fluorenes with various primary and secondary alcohols to provide the useful 9-monoalkylated fluorenes in high selectivities.
A Convenient Method for the Preparation of Inverted tert-Alkyl Carboxylates from Chiral tert-Alcohols by a New Type of Oxidation—Reduction Condensation Using 2,6-Dimethyl-1,4-benzoquinone.