I’m doing a literature search on an organic sythesis, and I found a reference that I’d like to see, but I can’t seem to find the actual journal article. The journal was written in German, and was published in 1980 - I found a short abstract on SciFinder, but I can’t find an online article, and my library only has issues from 1998
This is the complete reference:
A simple synthesis of allenecarboxylates by the Wittig reaction. Lang, Robert W.; Hansen, Hans Juergen. Inst. Org. Chem., Univ. Perolles, Fribours, Switz. Helv. Chim. Acta (1980), 63(2), 438-55
If there is some way the article could be forwarded to me, that would be great. Or, better yet, if someone finds it for me, with a bit of email correspondence, I can hopefully get the information I want regarding product yields without having to learn German
I’d like this in the next few days (by the end of the weekend), so any help would be really appreciated!
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I have online access through my school but it looks like that only goes back to 1998. The paper volumes are in storage here- so it seems I can’t be of any help. Sorry. I tried, though.
Can your library order a copy of the article for you? Alternatively, I have ordered copies of such things from ISI in the past. Fairly expensive though.
My university library has hard copies from 1918 forward - electronic access is available only for 1998-2002.
Does your library have interlibrary loan? Try that first, as they may be able to get it a lot quicker - anything that came from me would have to go snail mail and that’s going to take some time.
I forgot, if you just need information from the article, e-mail me at lcarscad @ utk.edu.
Today is going to be incredibly busy - I really won’t have a chance to find the article or do anything with it until later in the afternoon or tomorrow at the earliest.
I only need a couple of yield numbers, and perhaps a synthesis outline - its usually just a paragraph or so in the Methods section. I never even thought of the inter-library loan…I tend to rely on the online library catalogue (which is really good) and forget that the building actually exists! I suppose I could try that, but I think it’s something of a long delay before I can get it. I’ll talk to the library if I have time today, but I might email you., Lsura as well. My understanding is that the article is written in German, but hopefully it’ll be easy enough to find.
I have a professor who might be able to give me the proper german name for the compound I’m interested in, which might make the search a little easier once the article is obtained. As I said, it’s not a total rush- just by this weekend. I’ll see what I can do today, and then email you based on what happens!
