diazoacetate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From diazoacetic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Noun
[edit]diazoacetate (plural diazoacetates)
- (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of diazoacetic acid; the esters react with alkenes to form cyclopropane derivatives
- Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
- Considering the range of chiral catalysts that are available for diazoacetate decomposition, the development of reaction conditions for asymmetric vinylcarbenoid cyclopropanations had initially been considered to be relatively straightforward.
- Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich