Ethyl cyanoacetate appears as a colorless liquid. Denser than water. Contact may irritate skin, eyes and mucous membranes. May be toxic by ingestion. Used to make other chemicals.
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Hammett plots of the Knoevenagel condensation reaction of para-substituted benzaldehydes with ethyl cyanoacetate catalyzed by sodium salt of DNA fragments (circles) and PPL (squares).
Proposed Kinetic Mechanism DNA/RNA-Salts Appears To Progress via the Shown Catalytic Cycle
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A: Benzaldehyde and ethyl cyanoacetate were used in the Knoevenagel condensation reaction to evaluate the catalytic performance of metal-doped ETS-10 zeolites, with ethyl α-cyanocinnamate (ECC) as the target product.