Decarbalkoxylation of isohexylmalonates

JH Markgraf, MS Ibsen, JB Kinney…

Index: Markgraf,J.H. et al. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1977 , vol. 42, # 15 p. 2631 - 2632

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Abstract

A decade ago Krapcho reported that a geminal diester could be converted to the corresponding monoester by a novel one-step method.'The original procedure of sodium cyanide and dimethyl sulfoxide (Me2SO) was subsequently extended to include other salts in wet MeBO or wet dimethylformamide (DMF), 2 and it was further discovered that even the salt was unnecessary in the case of phenylmalonate~.~* 4 While the pioneering work of ...