diazoacetate

English

Etymology

From diazoacetic acid +‎ -ate (“salt or ester”).

Noun

diazoacetate (plural diazoacetates)

1. (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of diazoacetic acid; the esters react with alkenes to form cyclopropane derivatives

   Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich

   Considering the range of chiral catalysts that are available for diazoacetate decomposition, the development of reaction conditions for asymmetric vinylcarbenoid cyclopropanations had initially been considered to be relatively straightforward.