Journal of the American Chemical Society

The Knoevenagel reaction and the synthesis of unsaturated nitro compounds

DE Worrall

Index: Worrall Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1934 , vol. 56, p. 1556,1558

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Citation Number: 15

Abstract

It has long been known that organic bases may be used to condense aldehydes with substances containing an active methylene group, yet the role played by the amines is still obscure. The explanation offered by Knoevenagel and others of the intermediate formation of a Schiff base does not account for the activity of tertiary amines as Hann and Lapworth'have pointed out. These investigators proposed a hypothesis in which the base ...