Doebner modification (English, name)
expansion: the Doebner modification
Senses:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variant of Knoevenagel condensation in which one of the withdrawing groups on the nucleophile is a carboxylic acid, and the condensation product undergoes a subsequent decarboxylation step, the base being pyridine.
Forms:
form: the Doebner modification
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