Solvent-free microwave enhanced Knoevenagel condensation of ethyl cyanoacetate with aldehydes

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/00397919908086438

A high yielding and fast method of Knoevenagel condensation of ethyl cyanoacetate with various aldehydes under microwave irradiation using environment-friendly ammonium acetate in the absence of any solvent is described.

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Solvent-Free Microwave Enhanced
Knoevenagel Condensation of Ethyl
Cyanoacetate with Aldehydes
Alok Kumar Mitra a , Aparna De a & Nilay Karchaudhuri a
a Department of Chemistry, University of Calcutta, 92,
Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Calcutta, 700 009, India
Published online: 25 Sep 2007.
To cite this article: Alok Kumar Mitra , Aparna De & Nilay Karchaudhuri (1999) Solvent-
Free Microwave Enhanced Knoevenagel Condensation of Ethyl Cyanoacetate with Aldehydes,
Synthetic Communications: An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic
Organic Chemistry, 29:16, 2731-2739, DOI: 10.1080/00397919908086438
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