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Making Cinnamic Acid

2016-10-01

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Today we make some Trans-cinnamic acid from benzaldehyde and malonic acid. The reaction is called the Verley-Doebner modification of the Knoevenagel Condensation.

The classic Knoevenagel Condensation is similar to the Aldol Condensation

Prep that I followed: http://www.chemistry.mcmaster.ca/~chem3d3/expt5-7.pdf.gz

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