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Chem. Commun., 2009, 7173 - 7175, DOI: 10.1039/b912509d


Silver-catalysed protodecarboxylation of carboxylic acids

Lukas J. Gooßen, Christophe Linder, Nuria Rodríguez, Paul P. Lange and Andreas Fromm


A silver-based catalyst system has been discovered that effectively promotes the protodecarboxylation of various carboxylic acids at temperatures of 80–120 °C—more than 50 °C below those of the best known copper catalysts.

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