Lithium-t-Butanol

Lithium-t-Butanol-Tetrahydrohirane. The insecticides aldrin and isodrin became attractive starting materials for the synthesis of compounds of interesting ring systems with the discovery by Bruck, Thompson, and Winstein of a simple method for effecting their dechlorination, that is, replacement of all the chlorine atoms by hydrogen. The polyhalogen compound is treated with lithium ribbon (3 g. atoms per... 

Dechlorination of (1) with this combination, equivalent to the original lithium-t-butanol-tetrahydrofurane combination (1, 604-606), led to reduction as well as dechlorination to give (2) and (3).1... 

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