Dieckmann Reaction

W. Dieckmann, Ber. 27, 102, 965 (1894); 33, 595, 2670, (1900); Ann. 317, 51, 93, (1901).

Base-catalyzed cyclization of dicarboxylic acid esters to give β-ketoesters, the intramolecular equivalent of the Claisen condensation, q.v.:

J. P. Schaefer, J. J. Bloomfield, Org. React. 15, 1-203 (1967); H. O. House, Modern Synthetic Reactions (W. A. Benjamin, Menlo Park, California, 2nd ed., 1972) pp 740-743; H. Kwart, K. Sing in The Chemistry of Carboxylic Acids and Esters, S. Patai, Ed. (Interscience, New York, 1969) p 341; B. R. Davis, P. J. Garrett, Comp. Org. Syn. 2, 806-829 (1991). Cf. Gabriel-Colman Rearrangement.