The Progessive and Step-Wise Decarboxylation of Furan-Tetracarboxlic Acid

Authors

Henry Gilman, Iowa State CollegeFollow
Harold Oatfield, Iowa State College
Willard H. Kirkpatrick, Iowa State CollegeFollow

Document Type

Research

Abstract

Tetra-ethyl furantetracarboxylate is readily prepared by the condensation of oxalacetic ester. The corresponding furantetracarboxylic acid can be progressively decarboxylated. Two of the interesting products of decarboxylation are 3, 4-furandicarboxylic acid and 3-furoic acid. The 3, 4-furandicarboxylic acid is interesting not only for purposes of absolute orientation (it completes the series of furandicarboxylic acids) but also because it gives unequivocal evidence for the constitution of a series of 2-nitrofurans. It now appears that this method of stripping carboxyl groups is the best now available for the synthesis of 3-furoic acid, which otherwise is prepared with considerable difficulty.

Publication Date

1933

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

40

Issue

1

First Page

112

Last Page

112

Copyright

©1933 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Gilman, Henry; Oatfield, Harold; and Kirkpatrick, Willard H. (1933) "The Progessive and Step-Wise Decarboxylation of Furan-Tetracarboxlic Acid," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 40(1), 112-112.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol40/iss1/52