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The presence of β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) and triethylbenzyl ammonium chloride (TEBA) favors the one-pot reaction of aromatic aldehydes, chloroform and sodium hydroxide to give α-hydroxyarylacetic acids in 81% ∼ 89% yields.
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Zhou et al. (1994) studied this question.
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