ramarao
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Can any body advise the preparation method for ethyl-2-methylacetoacetate from ethylacetoacetate on an economical method?
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Sergei_Eisenstein
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I think the standard method is reacting ethyl acetoacetate with MeI in the presence of a strong base (NaOEt).
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