Tetrahedron Letters

Stereochemistry of the dealkoxycarbonylation of methyl α-cyanocinnamate and of the decarboxylation of the corresponding cyanoacid: a facile stereoselective route to …

JH Barber, KP Spina

Index: Babler, James H.; Spina, Kenneth P. Tetrahedron Letters, 1983 , vol. 24, # 36 p. 3835 - 3838

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Abstract

Abstract Decarboxylation of E-3-phenyl-2-cyanopropenoic acid (1) in dimethyl sulfoxide containing sodium bicarbonate, lithium chloride, and water in molar excess afforded, with high stereospecificity, Z-cinnamonitrile (6). The dealkoxycarbonylation of the corresponding