Claisen - Haase rearrangement of enol esters

  • Gogan, F.
  • O'Briain, A. E.
  • Philbin, E. M.
  • O'Connor, N. S.
  • Timoney, R. F.
  • Wheeler, T. S.
Publication date
January 1958
Publisher
Elsevier Science

Abstract

The Claisen-Haase rearrangement of ß-acyloxyacrylates, RC(O·COR') : CH·CO2Et, into the isomeric diacylacetates, RCO·CH(COR')·CO2Et, is subject to base and acid catalysis. The reaction is intermolecular when base-catalysed and probably intramolecular when acid-catalysed

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