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ChemInform Abstract: Methyl 3,3-Difluoro-2-hydroxyacrylate - A New Metastable Enol.
First published: April 16, 1996
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ChemInform Abstract
Mild dehydrofluorination of the ester (I) followed by careful hydrolysis of the resulting acrylate (II) provides a new metastable enol (III). The latter is a valuable building block for the preparation of α-difluoromethyl substituted α-hydroxy and . alpha.-amino acids.
