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- Keto acid II was prepared from the monochloride monomethyl ester of phthalic acid and dicyclopropyl cadmium. Details of this synthesis and of other reactions of II will be described elsewhere
- Satisfactory elemental analysis and mass spectral data were obtained for this compound
- We wish to thank Prof. Y. Inubushi of Kyoto University for furnishing an authentic sample of shihunine picrate
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