
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mole, T 
A1  - Surtees, JR 
T1  - Organoaluminium compounds. V. Reactions of organoaluminium compounds with benzophenone
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1964
VL  - 17
IS  - 9
SP  - 961
EP  - 966
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9640961 
N2  - 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. 
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