K. Itoh, Tatsumi Harada, H. Nagashima
Dec 1, 1991
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Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
Abstract
Treatment of arylmagnesium bromide with an equimolar amount of zinc chloride followed by the reaction with diketene in the presence of a catalytic amount of PdCl2(PPh3)2 provided an improved synthetic method for 3-aryl-3-butenoic acids in a large scale. Application as a monomer for the substituted polystyrenes is exemplified by the copolymerization of methyl 3-phenyl-3-butenoate with styrene.