Talk:Darzens reaction

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Error in mechanism

There is an error in the mechanism; the a-chloroacetate is shown to be deprotonated to form a carbene; this is in fact not the case, the author forgot about the second hydrogen on the alpha carbon. The intermediate should be a carbanion.

128.61.92.32 (talk) 22:51, 31 January 2009 (UTC)