1-tert-Butoxypropan-2-one as direct reaction product of acetone with tert-butyl hydroperoxide

IN Grebenshchikov, AS Dykman, VV Pinson

Index: Grebenshchikov; Dykman; Pinson Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2008 , vol. 44, # 4 p. 617 - 618

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Abstract

Hydroxyacetone is the main by-product impairing the quality of phenol obtained from cumene. It is now believed to be well established [1, 2] that this compound is formed mainly at the stage of acid decomposition of 1-methyl-1-phenylethyl hydroperoxide. Zakoshanskii et al.[2] presumed that hydroxyacetone arises from the reaction of acetone with 1-methyl-1- phenylethyl hydroperoxide; however, no experimental proofs for the proposed scheme ...