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Solvent-free Rap–Stoermer reactions were found to very efficiently give products in almost quantitative yield by just washing the reaction mixture with water. The reaction mechanism has been clarified completely by continuous IR spectral monitoring and by isolation of two reaction intermediates.
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Yoshizawa et al. (2003) studied this question.
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