New Compounds. Ethyl β-Keto-epsilon-phenoxyhexoate and Ethyl β-Keto-ζ-phenoxyheptoate

GB Brown, CWH Partridge

Index: Brown; Partridge Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1945 , vol. 67, p. 1423

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Abstract

These &keto esters have been prepared by carbethoxylation of the appropriate methyl ketones according to the procedure of Wallingford, Homeyer and J0nes. l y-Phhenoxypropyl Methyl Ketone.-Methylmagnesium bromide was prepared from 7.3 g. of magnesium and 29 g. of methyl bromide in 200 cc. of ether. The solution was cooled in an ice-bath while 29.3 g. of finely powdered anhydrous cadmium chloride (dried by heating in a stream of dry ...