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The acrylate ester of salicylaldehyde, in the presence of DABCO, affords a crystalline coumarin salt. Formation of this derivative confirms a vital intermediate in the mechanism of the reaction. Salicylaldehyde, suitably protected, reacts with methyl acrylate to afford a novel coumarin not unlike the vasodilator chromonar.
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Drewes et al. (1993) studied this question.
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