Photolysis of carboxylic esters: conversion of alcohols into alkanes

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1 January 1975

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications

No. 11,p. 439-440
https://doi.org/10.1039/c39750000439

Abstract

Alkanes are formed in good yields when diluted solutions of non-activated carboxylic esters in HMPA–H₂O (95:5) are irradiated at 254 nm.

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