A remarkable rate acceleration of the Baylis–Hillman reaction

Wei-Der Lee, Kung‐Shuo Yang, Kwunmin Chen

Chemical Communications · 2001 · 50 citations · 15 references

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Abstract

Treatment of alpha-naphthyl acrylate with both aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes in the presence of DABCO (30 mol%) afforded the desired (alpha-methylene-beta-hydroxy)esters with reasonable chemical yields (51-88%) within 20 min.

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