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J Am Chem Soc. 2017 Oct 25;139(42):15049-15053. doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b07504. Epub 2017 Oct 13.

Carbon Kinetic Isotope Effects and the Mechanisms of Acid-Catalyzed Decarboxylation of 2,4-Dimethoxybenzoic Acid and CO.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Adelle A Vandersteen, Graeme W Howe, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Ronald Kluger

Affiliations

  1. Davenport Chemical Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry and The Stable Isotopes Laboratory, and ‡Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto , Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada.

PMID: 28982238 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b07504

Abstract

The rate of decarboxylation of 2,4-dimethoxybenzoic acid (1) is accelerated in parallel to the extent that the carboxyl group acquires a second proton (1H

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