Abstract: | The reaction of the title compound with dichloroacetic acid esters in the presence of butyllithium gave esters of 3-thienyl-3-hydroxy-2,2-dichloropropionic acid.A. E. Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry, Kazan' Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 420083 Kazan', Russia. Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1870–1873, August, 1992. |