A remarkable rate acceleration of the Baylis-Hillman reaction.
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.
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Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University, 88 Sec. 4 TingChow Road, Taipei, Taiwan 116, ROC.
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