HOMOLYTIC ADDITION OF CYCLIC ETHERS TO CROTONIC ACID

Abstract

It has been found that the route of addition of tetrahydrofuran and dioxane to crotonic acid depends on the temperature of the reaction. A feature of the synthesized oxacycloalkylbutyric acids is the existence of an intramolecular hydrogen bond involving the oxygen atom of the heterocycle.

Author: G. G. Galust’yan.

English Translation in Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, 1999, 35 (1), pp 33-36

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