Alkyl Chloroformates and Their Nomenclature

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8 PURIFIED MIXED ANHYDRIDES OF N-ALKOXYCARBONYLAMINO ACIDS AND THEIR DECOMPOSITION TO 2-ALKOXY-5(4H)-OXAZOLONES 

Up until the late 1980s, it was conventional wisdom that mixed-anhydride reactions should be carried out at low temperature under anhydrous conditions and not in 

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