Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed)

626. The synthesis and prototropic rearrangement of 4-hydroxyhept-5-en-3-one

EA Braude, CJ Timmons

Index: Braude; Timmons Journal of the Chemical Society, 1953 , p. 3144,3147

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Abstract

4-Hydroxyhept-5-en-3-one, CHMe: CH* CH (OH)* COEt, has been synthesised from crotonaldehyde cyanohydrin and ethylmagnesium bromide and found to undergo double prototropic rearrangement with great ease to heptane-3: 4-dione, Me-CH,* CH,* CO* COEt.