@article{2de962d892774c57aa2bc83fd4a6714a,
title = "Oxidative decarboxylation of mandelate ethers and α-substituted phenylacetates via dioxetanone generation",
abstract = "Mandelate ethers are oxidatively decarboxylated via in situ generated dioxetanones using tBuOK and air at ambient temperature leading, after hydrolysis, to the benzoic acid and the corresponding alcohol. The reaction can be extended to α-substituted phenylacetates.",
author = "Bertrand Heckmann and Carole Alayrac and Charges Mioskowski and S. Chandrasekhar and Falck, {J. R.}",
note = "Funding Information: Acknowledgment: We thankt heCNRS, Rhone-PoulencA grochimie,U SPHS NIH (DK-38226),a nd the Robert A. Welch Foundation (I-782) for financial support.F unds for the purchaseo f a mass spectrometwere rep rovidedb y NlH (SIO RR05922).",
year = "1992",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/S0040-4039(00)79133-7",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "33",
pages = "5205--5208",
journal = "Tetrahedron Letters",
issn = "0040-4039",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "36",
}