Ethyl 4-acetyl-5-oxo-3-phenylhexanoate

The reaction of ethyl 3-bromo-3-phenylpropanoate with pentane-2,4-dione, in the presence of palladium(II) acetate and triphenylphosphine, in dimethylformamide, unexpectedly gave the title product, C16H20O4. The molecule contains one chiral C atom but the crystal is racemic. In the crystal, neighbori...

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Main Authors: Hongwei Wang, Yimin Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Union of Crystallography 2011-04-01
Series:Acta Crystallographica Section E
Online Access:http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S160053681100955X