Cyclisation of acetylenecarboxylic acids; a novel route to γ-methylenebutyrolactones
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 15,p. 649-650
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39780000649
Abstract
Various γ-methylenebutyrolactones have been synthesized in good yield by the cyclisation of acetylenecarboxylic acids in the presence of a catalytic amount of mercury(II) oxide.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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