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Acyloin condensation is a
reductive coupling of two
carboxylic esters using impure metallic sodium to
yield an α-hydroxyketone, also
known as an acyloin...
- In
organic chemistry,
acyloins or α-hydroxy
ketones are a
class of
organic compounds of the
general form R−C(O)CH(OH)−R',
composed of a
hydroxy group (−OH)...
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aromatic aldehydes or
glyoxals (OCH=CHO), and
results in
formation of an
acyloin (−C(O)CH(OH)−). In the
classic example,
benzaldehyde is
converted to benzoin...
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succinate is a
particularly versatile building block. It parti****tes in
acyloin condensation to give 2-hydroxycyclobutanone. Via
condensation with oxalate...
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hydroxyketones and
alpha hydroxy imines.
Reactions of type 4 are also
called acyloin rearrangements.
While similar to the
pinacol rearrangement, the semipinacol...
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Normally such
compounds are
disfavored components in
equilibria with
acyloins. One
special case is catechol,
where the C=C
subunit is part of an aromatic...
- sixteen-member ring hydrocarbon. It can be
prepared from the
large ring
acyloin by
reduction with zinc amalgam. Ham,
Peter (2001). "Zinc Amalgam". Encyclopedia...
- this
reaction step the
alkene group is
first oxidized to an
intermediate acyloin by
action of osmium(III) chloride,
oxone (sacrificial catalyst) and sodium...
- or 1,4-butanediol,
depending on conditions. Sebacoin,
derived from the
acyloin condensation of
dimethyl sebacate, is
hydrogenated to 1,2-cyclodecanediol...
- pyrolysis.
Pairs of
esters are
coupled to give α-hydroxyketones in the
acyloin condensation. As a class,
esters serve as
protecting groups for carboxylic...
