Journal of the American Chemical Society

Oxidative decarboxylation-deoxygenation of 3-hydroxy carboxylic acids via vanadium (V) complexes. A new route to tri-and tetrasubstituted olefins

IK Meier, J Schwartz

Index: Meier, Ingrid K.; Schwartz, Jeffrey Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1989 , vol. 111, # 8 p. 3069 - 3070

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Citation Number: 28

Abstract

Oxidative decarboxylation of carboxylic acids is a ''classical” procedure in synthetic organic chemistry which is well known in scope and mechanism. Surprisingly, whereas 2- hydroxycarboxylic acids have been studied in detail,] no similar investigations of 3- hydroxycarboxylic acids have appeared although these compounds are readily prepared by “aldol-type''condensation procedures.* We have now found that 3-hydroxycarboxylic acids ...