Electrochemical oxidation of lithium enolates of esters containing no activating groups at low temperature produced the corresponding substituted succinate esters in fairly good yields Electrolysis of enolate of ethyl phenylacetate also produced a quantitative yield of the oxidative dimer with 100% current efficiency.
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