(1) Russian Academy of Sciences, N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, 47 Leninsky prosp., 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract:
Electrolysis of 4-substituted cyclohexanones in methanol in the presence of sodium halides as mediators in an undivided cell results in the stereoselective formation of cis-5-substituted 2,2-dimethoxycyclohexanols in 70—80% yields.