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Abstract Treatment of 2-(6-(2-methoxyethyl)pyridyl) carboxylates with alkyl iodides in the presence of zinc dust and a catalytic amount of NiCl2 in DMF at 50 °C affords unsymmetrical ketones in good yields by a one-pot procedure.
Onaka et al. (Wed,) studied this question.