Tetrahedron

Diethyl isopropyl and isopropenyl phosphate via differently generated ketyl radicals of acetone reacting with diethyl phosphoric acid

J Schole, C Schole, J Eikemeyer, HC Krebs

Index: Schole, Juergen; Schole, Christine; Eikemeyer, Juergen; Krebs, Hans Christoph Tetrahedron, 1994 , vol. 50, # 4 p. 1125 - 1128

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Abstract

Photochemically excited acetone reacts in 1, 2-dimethoxy ethane with diethyl phosphoric acid to diethyl isopropyl phosphate. The same product is formed by reduction of acetone with magnesium amalgam in benzene in the presence of the same phosphoric acid derivative. Thermal decomposition of tetramethyldioxetane in benzene in the presence of diethyl phosphoric acid appears to yield primarily diethyl isopropenyl phosphate.