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The electrochemical oxidation of malonic esters in methanol, ethanol, or acetonitrile in the presence of alkali metal bromides as catalyst-carriers, with the use of 1.8–2 F of electricity per mole of the starting malonic ester leads to esters of propane-1,1,2,2,3,3-hexacarboxylic acid in a yield of up to 90%.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 2, pp. 352–355, February, 1989.
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Élinson, M.N., Fedukovich, S.K. & Nikishin, G.I. Electrochemical selective trimerization of malonic esters into esters of propane-1,1,2,2,3,3-hexacarboxylic acid in the presence of hydrobromic acid salts. Russ Chem Bull 38, 301–304 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00953617
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