“…Early work pertaining to the electrolytic reduction of halogenated esters was carried out by Elving et al [3] and by Lambert [4] in studies of the polarographic behavior of ethyl bromoalkanoates. In a later investigation of the electrochemistry of several halogenated ethyl acetates, Baizer and Chruma [5] demonstrated that direct reduction of ethyl bromoacetate at mercury is a two-electron process which leads to formation of the ethoxycarbonylmethyl anion; once produced, this anion engages in non-electrochemical reactions to form ethyl acetate, diethyl succinate, 1,2,3-cyclopropane tricarboxylic acid triethyl ester, 1,2,3-propanetricarboxylic acid triethyl ester, and diethyl fumarate.…”