diazoacetate

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noun

Any salt or ester of diazoacetic acid; the esters react with alkenes to form cyclopropane derivatives

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Meanings

noundiazoacetate (plural diazoacetates)

plural diazoacetates

  1. chemistryAny salt or ester of diazoacetic acid; the esters react with alkenes to form cyclopropane derivatives
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    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.

Origin

From diazoacetic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

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