Kinetics and mechanism of thermal decomposition of phenylmalonic acids and esters in dimethyl sulphoxide
- 1 January 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2
- No. 15,p. 1829-1832
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p29740001829
Abstract
Rates of decarboxylation are reported for several phenylmalonic acids and esters in dimethyl sulphoxide at 55·4°. Only those compounds bearing at least one carboxylic proton are labile which establishes that intramolecular proton transfer is an integral part of the reaction mechanism.Keywords
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