Catalytic Dimerization of Crotonates

JCA Flanagan, EJ Kang, NI Strong, RM Waymouth - Acs Catalysis, 2015 - ACS Publications
… can now be added to the diverse and growing set of catalytic and … the catalytic dimerization
that was observed with crotonates, we instead observed a rapid, stoichiometric dimerization–…

Catalytic Lewis pair polymerization of renewable methyl crotonate to high-molecular-weight polymers

M McGraw, EYX Chen - ACS Catalysis, 2018 - ACS Publications
Crotonates, unlike their constitutional isomers of methacrylates, are not readily polymerized
crotonate (MC) using organic N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) initiators led to only dimerization

Electron‐rich Phosphines Catalyzed Head‐to‐Tail Dimerization of Renewable Alkyl Crotonates

LQ Wen, H Zhou, WM Ren, XB Lu - Chemistry–An Asian Journal - Wiley Online Library
… We have developed a highly nucleophilic BIG-Pscatalyzed dimerization of alkyl crotonates
to 2ethylidene-3-methylpentanedioates for the first time. This transformation features the high …

Base-Catalyzed Reactions of α,β-Unsaturated Esters and Nitriles. I. Potassium-Catalyzed Dimerization of Ethyl Crotonate1a

J Shabtai, H Pines - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1965 - ACS Publications
crotonate undergoes fast and selective dimerization at 110 in the presence of a
potassium-benzylpotassium catalystcrotonate is more acidic than the allylic methyl hydrogens …

Michael addition of methyl crotonate over solid base catalysts

H Kabashima, H Tsuji, H Hattori - Applied Catalysis A: General, 1997 - Elsevier
Dimerization of methyl crotonate was studied for active solid base catalysts as well as for …
Dimerization of methyl crotonate proceeds over MgO by Michael addition, which is initiated …

Conversion of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) to methyl crotonate for the production of biobased monomers

J Spekreijse, J Le Nôtre, JPM Sanders… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… The catalytic Michael addition of methanol to MC has been previously observed45 and there
are indications that at 125–175C, CA can form a dimer via a Michael addition.46 However, …

Degradable Alternating Copolymers by Radical Copolymerization of 2-Methylen-1, 3-dioxepane and Crotonate Esters

A Barquero, A Zanoni, E Gabirondo… - ACS Macro …, 2024 - ACS Publications
… of MDO catalyzed by the crotonic acid, a 100% biobased alkyl crotonate was synthesized …
repeating unit was that of the MDO-BCr dimer. This was supported by the calculated reactivity …

Copolymerization and Terpolymerization of CO2 and Epoxides Using a Soluble Zinc Crotonate Catalyst Precursor

DJ Darensbourg, MS Zimmer - Macromolecules, 1999 - ACS Publications
… This observation is consistent with the polymeric structure noted for zinc crotonate in which
zinc dimers bridged by three carboxylate ligands are joined together by a fourth, a common …

Phosphine-catalyzed dimerization of activated alkenes under ambient and high pressure conditions

G Jenner - Tetrahedron Letters, 2000 - Elsevier
Crotonates, however, did not react under normal conditions. Dimerization of methyl and
ethyl crotonate occurred under 300 MPa with P[N(CH 3 ) 2 ] as catalyst (entries 8–10). Other …

Organometallic compound with Lewis base—IV: Dimerization of methyl crotonate by aluminum alkyl-tertiary amine complex

M Ikeda, T Hirano, T Tsuruta - Tetrahedron, 1974 - Elsevier
… to induce the catalytic dimerization of methyl crotonate (MCr) to … The dimerization to dimer
1 is initiated by the abstraction of … Dimer 2 is formed through the isomerization of dimer 1. The …