Molecules, Volume 4, Issue 5

Professor Ta-shue Chou, who died of cancer on 25 February 1999 at the age of 50 and spent much of his academic career as Research Professor of Organic Chemistry, at the Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, was a...

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Pd(II) catalyzed the exchange reaction of vinyl acetate with aromatic acids to produce the corresponding vinyl esters in good yields.

The dianion of 2,3’-biquinolyl with aryl- and hetaryl halides forms the products of arylation to 4’-position, which on treatment with alkyl halides or water yield 1’-alkyl-1’,4’dihydro-2,3’-biquinolyls or 4’-aryl-1’,4’-dihydro-2,3’-biquinolyls respec...