126.

Favorskii-Babayan Synthesis

A. E. Favorskii, J. Russ. Phys. Chem. Soc. 37, 643 (1905); Chem. Zentr. 1905, II, 1018; A. Babayan et al., J. Gen. Chem. (USSR) 9, 1631 (1939).

Synthesis of acetylenic alcohols from ketones and terminal acetylenes in the presence of anhydrous alkali:

A. W. Johnson, The Chemistry of Acetylenic Compounds vol. 1 (London, 1946) p 14; R. A. Raphael, Acetylenic Compounds in Organic Synthesis (New York, 1955) p 10; M. F. Shostakovskii et al., Zh. Org. Khim. 4, 1747 (1968), A. V. Shchelkunov et al., ibid. 6, 930 (1970); E. M. Glazunova et al., Zh. Org. Khim. 12, 516 (1976); Y. M. Vilenchik et al., ibid. 14, 447 (1978). Cf. Arens-van Dorp Synthesis; Nef Synthesis.