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Convenient and direct: 1,4-Dicarbonyl compounds are readily obtained through a one-pot cerium-catalyzed oxidative CC coupling in the presence of oxygen and subsequent fragmentation. The products are suitable precursors for heterocycles.
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Rössle et al. (2004) studied this question.
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