Phase managed organic synthesis. A new synthesis of mixed formic anhydrides

WK Fife, ZD Zhang

Index: Fife, Wilmer K.; Zhang, Zhi-dong Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1986 , vol. 51, # 19 p. 3744 - 3746

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Citation Number: 33

Abstract

Summary: Two new mixed formic anhydrides, cinnamic formic anhydride and formic 4- methoxybenzoic anhydride, can be prepared in high yield (-80%) from equimolar mixtures of sodium formate and the appropriate acid chloride with a solid-phase copolymer of pyridine 1- oxide as catalyst, and they exhibit excellent selectivity as formylating agents of alcohols and amines.