KINETIC INVESTIGATIONS ON THE PERKIN REACTION CATALYZED BY TERTIARY AMINES

  • Kasprzyk, Henryk
  • Kinastowski, Stefan

  • Department of Chemistry, Academy of Agriculture 60-625 Poznań, Wojska Polskiego 75, Poland,

e-mail: [email protected]

Reaction Kinetics & Catalysis Letters 77(1):p 3-12, September 2002.

The Perkin reaction is accompanied by competitive transformations of the intermediate carbanions. These transformations are found to be inhibited by the reacting aldehydes. The limiting stage of the Perkin reaction is NACC attack (nucleophilic attack at carbonyl carbon) of amines on the anhydride.

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