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The yield of 2,3-di-(2′-thienyl)-2,3-butanediol which is formed upon electroreduction of 2-acetylthiophene in DMF solution depends on the composition of the background electrolyte; the yield is at its maximum when the electrolysis is carried out in the presence of lithium salt.
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Products resulting from subsequent reactions of non-pinacol-type dimeric dianions upon electrolysis of 2-acetylthiophene under an Ar atmosphere or CO2 were also isolated and characterized.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1121–1125, May, 1988.
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Gul'tyai, V.P., Korotaeva, L.M. & Rubinskaya, T.Y. Electrochemical dimerization of 2-acetylthiophene. Russ Chem Bull 37, 983–987 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00957073
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