... Download full text in PDF. Tetrahedron Letters,Vo1.24,No.2,np 163-166,1983 0040-4039/83/ 020163-04$03.00/0 Printed in Great Britain 983 Pergamon Press Ltd. PREPARATION OF a-BROMOESTERS VIA THE HALF ESTERS OF MALONIC ACIDS A NOVEL METHOD FOR RAPID DECARROXYLATION UNDER MILD CONDITIONS 0. P. Goel* and U. Krolls Warner-Lambert/ Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research Division Department of Chemistry 2800 ...