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A study was made of the mechanism of the hydration ofα − nitrocrotonic ester in water at pH 1.0–3.0. A multistep scheme was proposed for the process, where the limiting step is the protonation of the intermediately formed C-anion of α-nitro-β-hydroxybutyric ester.
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Translation from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 936–937, May, 1966.
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Belikov, V.M., Belokon, Y.N. Hydration ofα- nitrocrotonic ester in acid medium. Russ Chem Bull 15, 897–898 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00849400
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00849400