JOURNAL 3297


Organic Communications
VOLUME & ISSUE
Year: 2013 Issue: 4 October-December
PAGES
p.134 - 138
STATISTICS
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AUTHORS
    Pagudala Narsimha and Akkirala Venkat Narsaiah
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ABSTRACT


4-Methoxy decanoic acid is belongs to a fatty acid family and has a novel anti- fungal activity. The aliphatic molecule has been synthesized in seven steps with an overall yield 41%. The synthesis was started from a commercially available epichloro hydrin and all the reactions were very clean.

KEYWORDS
  • Epichlorohydrin
  • Grignard reaction
  • methyliodide
  • oxidation
  • hydrolysis