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Reaction of the copper complex of L-alanine with acetaldehyde and the mechanism of the akabori reaction

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Conclusions

  1. 1.

    The Akabori reaction involves a stage in which an intermediate imine copper complex is formed from acetaldehyde and copper alaninate.

  2. 2.

    The intermediate complex has a higher CH acidity than the initial alanine copper complex.

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  1. Institute of Heteroorganic Compounds, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, USSR

    V. M. Belikov, S. V. Vitt, N. I. Kuznetsova, M. G. Bezrukov & M. B. Saporovskaya

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp. 2536–2541, November, 1969.

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Belikov, V.M., Vitt, S.V., Kuznetsova, N.I. et al. Reaction of the copper complex of L-alanine with acetaldehyde and the mechanism of the akabori reaction. Russ Chem Bull 18, 2371–2375 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00906512

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