Journal of the American Chemical Society

Synthesis of plumbagin

LF Fieser, JT Dunn

Index: Fieser; Dunn Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1936 , vol. 58, p. 572,575

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Citation Number: 27

Abstract

Summary The reaction of ethyl dichloroacetate with alcoholic sodium ethoxide gives a small yield of ethyl diethoxyacetate plus larger quantities of ethyl oxalochloroacetate diethyl acetal. The latter compound loses alcohol readily on heating, giving ethyl a-chloro-P- ethoxymaleate, from which the corresponding substituted maleic acid and anhydride have been prepared.