Journal of the American Chemical Society

The Hydrolysis of Trimethylethylene Bromide. Mechanism of Ketone Formation

CM Suter, HD Zook

Index: Suter; Zook Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1944 , vol. 66, p. 741

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Citation Number: 16

Abstract

It has long been known that the hydrolysis of certain olefin bromides results in the formation of carbonyl compounds. Eltekoff obtained acetaldehyde and ethylene glycol from ethylene bromide or chloride, acetone and propionaldehyde from the propylene halides, isobutyraldehyde from isobutylene bromide and methyl isopropyl ketone from trimethylethylene bromide. His procedure consisted in heating the halide with lead oxide ...