A one-pot electrochemical method for the synthesis of methyl monooxoalkanoates with the carbonyl group in position 4, methyl dioxoalkanoates with the oxo groups in positions 4,7-, 6,9-, 7,10-, and 12,15, and methyl 4-oxoalkanedioates was developed. This method is based on amperostatic electrolysis in an undivided cell of the salts of esters of nitroalkanoic acids and their adducts with CH2=CHX (X = Ac, CO2Me).
ZAVYALOV, S. I.;KRAVCHENKO, N. E., IZV. AN CCCP. CEP. XIM.,(1989) N, S. 1195-1198