Quote: Originally posted by zed | Ummm. Enolize Acetone....Might be difficult to do by ordinary methods. A relatively useful method for forming the enol of Acetone, is reacting
acetone with Ketene.
The resulting product is Isopropenyl Acetate. The Acetate Ester of Acetone Enol.
The product is commercially available at less than $100.00 U.S./Liter.
Ketene itself, isn't too hard to generate, but its use is fairly dangerous. Given the chance, it will rip though your lungs like a raging
Roto-Rooter. |
if you filled a flower jar w/ acetone, and had a nice coated Pt catylist floating and fixed above, could you just heat the catylist, and then, it
would be exothermic, with the evaporation sendingg a stream of acetone over the glowing Pt? |