Pyrolysis of Pyruvic Acid Hydrazones1

JH Boyer, LR Morgan Jr

Index: Boyer; Morgan Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1958 , vol. 80, p. 3012,3015

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Abstract

I3Y 5. 13. I3OYEIi AND L. 1<. illOKG.\ N, JK. l'liertiial decarl~ uxylatioii of 1) yruvic acid hydrazuuei (I) through zwitterioiis providci; ih\ i> for utidersluutliiig 1111. formation of both acetaldehyde and, in sane cascs, biacctyl derivatives. When the hydruoiie teririiiial iiitrogen is we< tkly basic, zwitterions of type 111 predominate and decarboxylation leads to the forination of corresponding acetaldehyde a~ id biacetyl hydrazones. The formation of the ...