• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.233-242
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• 2012

A new synthetic method for dimethyl 2,3-dihydrobenzo[b]oxepine-2,4-dicarboxylates and methyl 2-(2-carbomethoxybenzo[b]furan-3-yl)propanoates by an intramolecular conjugate displacement reaction or an $S_N2$ reaction of acetates of Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts of methyl (2-formylphenoxy)acetates has been described.