The Cyclization of Certain Ethylene Dimalonic Esters by Sodium Ethoxide

…, RFB Cox, SM McElvain

Index: Cope; McElvain Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1932 , vol. 54, p. 4314

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Abstract

If the recently suggested1 mechanism for the acetoacetic ester condensation is valid, it seemed that such an ester as ethylene dimalonic ester,(I, R= R'= H), should undergo the condensation, with the elimination of alcohol, to produce the tricarbethoxycyclopentanone