Tetrahedron

The mercury-mediated decarboxylation (Pesci reaction) of naphthoic anhydrides investigated by microwave synthesis

JD Moseley, JP Gilday

Index: Moseley, Jonathan D.; Gilday, John P. Tetrahedron, 2006 , vol. 62, # 19 p. 4690 - 4697

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Abstract

The mercury-mediated decarboxylation (Pesci reaction) of several substituted naphthoic anhydrides has been investigated by microwave synthesis. A laboratory microwave reactor was found to be ideal for small-scale preparations of this slow reaction, reducing reaction times from typically four days to less than 1h for the three-step process. The ionic reaction medium rapidly heated to high temperatures under microwave heating and could be ...