A safe process for the Reformatsky reaction of 5-methoxy-1-indanone and methyl 2-bromo butyrate giving an indenyl butanoate was developed. It was scaled-up from the lab to the pilot plant. The results from two campaigns on pilot-plant scale are presented.
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Scherkenbeck et al. (2005) studied this question.