Auwers synthesis
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The Auwers synthesis is a series of organic reaction
Organic reaction
Organic reactions are chemical reactions involving organic compounds. The basic organic chemistry reaction types are addition reactions, elimination reactions, substitution reactions, pericyclic reactions, rearrangement reactions, photochemical reactions and redox reactions. In organic synthesis,...

s forming a flavonol from a coumarone. This reaction was first reported by Karl von Auwers
Karl von Auwers
Karl Friedrich von Auwers was a German chemist and the academic adviser of Karl Ziegler and Georg Wittig at the University of Marburg.-Life:...

 in 1908.
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