title: A remarkable rate acceleration of the Baylis-Hillman reaction.
abstract: Treatment of alpha-naphthyl acrylate with both aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes in the presence of DABCO (30 mol%) afforded the desired (alpha-methylene-beta-hydroxy)esters with reasonable chemical yields (51-88%) within 20 min.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University, 88 Sec. 4 TingChow Road, Taipei, Taiwan 116, ROC.
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chen