Some Reactions of Ketals1

AA Baum, GF Hennion

Index: Baum; Hennion Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1938 , vol. 60, p. 570

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Abstract

Introduction Very little work is reported in'the literature concerning the chemical behavior of the higher ketone acetals (ketals). Prior to their preparation from alkyl acetylenes by Hennion, Killian and Nieuwland, 2 these compounds were prepared by the condensation of ketones with alkyl orthoformates in the presence of appropriate alcohol^.^-^ Killian, Hennion and Nieuwlande report a reaction of ketals involving an interchange of alkoxy groups to ...