Synthesis 2013; 45(8): 1000-1015
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1318475
short review
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Hydrocinnamic Acids: Application and Strategy of Synthesis

Sergei M. Korneev*
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Publication History

Received: 08 October 2012

Accepted after revision: 25 February 2013

Publication Date:
19 March 2013 (online)


On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the first synthesis of hydrocinnamic acid

Abstract

This review summarizes all the main approaches to the synthesis of hydrocinnamic acids based on the construction of the side chain with a carboxy moiety around the aromatic ring. Numerous methods for the synthesis of hydrocinnamic acids by constructive or destructive routes, such as reductive or oxidative reactions, rearrangements, catalytic reactions, or electrochemical conversion, are considered and presented in a rational system.