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Photochemical reaction of benzaldehyde and benzyl alcohol with methyl acrylate

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The major low-molecular-weight product of the photochemical reaction of benzyl alcohol with methyl acrylate, in both the presence and absence of benzaldehyde, is the methyl ester of 4-methoxycarbonyl-6-oxo-6-phenylhexanoic acid (obtained in 2–16% preparative yield). The photolysis of systems containing a primary alcohol, the corresponding aldehyde, and methyl acrylate was found unsuitable for the preparation of 4-substitutedγ-butanolides.

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  1. N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

    I. M. Vol'pin & É. P. Serebryakov

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 10, pp. 2384–2387, October, 1985.

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Vol'pin, I.M., Serebryakov, É.P. Photochemical reaction of benzaldehyde and benzyl alcohol with methyl acrylate. Russ Chem Bull 34, 2209–2211 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00963264

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