diazoacetate

English

Etymology

diazoacetic +‎ -ate

Noun

diazoacetate (plural diazoacetates)

  1. (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.
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