In connection with other work under consideration it was of importance for us to ascertain the availability of 0-alkyl-a-bromoacrylic ethyl esters. The few such esters that have previously been reported have usually been prepared by conventional methods, such as reaction of the silver salt of the corresponding acid with ethyl iodide, s esterification of the acid with ethanol in the presence of concentrated sulfuric acidJa or by treatment of the acid with ...
[Murphy, John A.; Scott, Karen A.; Sinclair, Rhoha S.; Martin, Concepcion Gonzalez; Kennedy, Alan R.; Lewis, Norman Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, 2000 , # 15 p. 2395 - 2408]