The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Specific synthesis and selective alkylation and condensation of monoesters of substituted succinic acids

WG Kofron, LG Wideman

Index: Kofron,W.G.; Wideman,L.G. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1972 , vol. 37, p. 555 - 559

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Abstract

The acidity of a proton Q! to a carboxyl function can be profoundly affected by the nature of the carboxyl derivative. Thus while ethyl 3-bromopropionate is dehydrohalogenated by potassium diphenylmethide, in the 3-bromopropionate ion the acidity of the Q! proton has ...