(1) Russian Academy of Sciences, M. M. Shemyakin and Yu. A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, 16/10 ul. Miklukho-Maklaya, 117997 Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract:
A procedure was developed for the preparation of 2- and 3-pyridinyl(aryl)methanones by the reactions of aryllithium with methyl pyridinecarboxylate and methyl esters of substituted phenylcarboxylic acids.