Hydroxymethylene Ketones. III. The Preparation of Methoxymethylene Ketones1

EE Royals, KC Brannock

Index: Royals; Brannock Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1953 , vol. 75, p. 2050 Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1954 , vol. 76, p. 1180,3041

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Abstract

The preparation of ethoxymethyleneacetone by the alkylation of sodium hydroxymethyleneacetone in ethanol with ethyl bromide has been describedaa In the present work, alkylation of crude sodium hydroxymethyleneacetone with ethyl iodide in ethanol gave a poor yield of an inseparable mixture of ethoxymethyleneacetone and acetoacetaldehyde diethylacetal. Though the difference in the present results and those ...