
%0 Journal Article
%A Mole, T 
%A Surtees, JR 
%T Organoaluminium compounds. V. Reactions of organoaluminium compounds with benzophenone
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1964/09/01
%V 17
%N 9
%P 961-966
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9640961
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9640961 
%X Benzophenone reacts with trimethyl-, triethyl-, and tri-isobutyl-aluminium in boiling benzene to give products resulting from alkylation, alkylation together with reduction, and reduction, respectively. Under these conditions dimethylphenylaluminium phenylates exclusively, whilst diethylphenylaluminium acts as a phenylating, reducing, and ethylating agent. Both di-isobutylphenyl- and isobutyldiphenylaluminium act as reducing agents, but the latter also phenylates. Attention is drawn to the mechanistic complexity of these reactions. 
