Buchner-Curtius-Schlotterbeck Reaction

E. Buchner, T. Curtius, Ber. 18, 2371 (1885); F. Schlotterbeck, Ber. 40, 479 (1907); 42, 2559 (1909).

Formation of ketones from aldehydes and aliphatic diazo compounds; ethylene oxides may also be formed:

B. Eistert in Newer Methods of Preparative Organic Chemistry, English Ed. (New York, 1948) p 521; C. D. Gutsche, Org. React. 8, 364 (1954); J. B. Bastus, Tetrahedron Letters 1963, 955.