Advances in the chemistry of divinylacetylene

S. A. Vartanyan

Institute of Organic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of ArmSSR, Erevan

Abstract: CONTENTS
I. Introduction 243
II. Synthesis of divinylacetylene and its homologues 243
III. Polymerisation of divinylacetylene 244
IV. Hydrogenation 245
V. Addition of halogens 245
VI. Addition of thiophenols 246
VII. Addition of alcohols 246
VIII. Addition of amines 246
IX. Addition of lithium alkyls 246
X. Addition of ROX, ROCH₂Cl, and C₆H₅N₂Cl 246
XI. Addition of hydrogen halides 247
XII. Oxidation of divinylacetylene hydrocarbons 248
XIII. Cyclisation 248
XIV. Cyclohydration 249
XV. Synthesis of β-alkoxyketones by hydration of divinylacetylene hydrocarbons in aqueous solutions of alcohols 250
XVI. Alkylation and cycloalkylation 254
XVII. Diene synthesis 254
XVIII. Aldehydes and glycols of the divinylacetylene series 255

UDC: 547.311:547.312

DOI: 10.1070/RC1964v033n05ABEH001404

 English version: Russian Chemical Reviews, 1964, 33:5, 243–258