1974 年 22 巻 11 号 p. 2675-2679
The present paper discloses a decarboxylation reaction of several conjugated unsaturated ketones and nitriles with carboxylic acids such as acetoacetic acid, malonic acid and cyanoacetic acid. In the reaction these carboxylic acids are decarboxylated and introduced at β-carbon of the conjugated unsaturated compounds. Thus there have been provided a effective means of introducing acetonyl, carboxymethyl and cyanomethyl at that position.