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Synthetic Communications
An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Volume 29, 1999 - Issue 13
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Original Articles

Facile Synthesis of Methyl 2-Formyl-5-hydroxymethyl-3-furancarboxylate

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Pages 2317-2321 | Received 04 Dec 1998, Published online: 17 Sep 2007
 

Abstract

A short practical synthesis of the title trisubstituted furan is presented. It involves a high yield Knoevenagel condensation of glyceraldehyde and methyl acetoacetate to the furan nucleus and, following a protection of the furyl alcohol, a radical bromination then a Kröhnke reaction of the furyl bromide intermediate.

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