morsagh - 26-5-2015 at 11:27
Anybody has some ideas how to make sodium methanetetracarboxylate without using pentaerythritol? Maybe oxidation of 2,2,4-trimethylpentane?
clearly_not_atara - 26-5-2015 at 11:52
A couple of Mannich additions w/formaldehyde and NH3 to diethyl malonate followed by oxidation of the resulting
2,2-di(ethoxycarbonyl)-1,3-propanediamine should generate the desired compound.
Metacelsus - 26-5-2015 at 18:54
It would probably be easier to make your own pentaerythritol, depending on availability of acetaldehyde.
(http://www.orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep=CV1P0425)
morsagh - 27-5-2015 at 02:23
oxidation of pinacolone by KMnO4 doesn´t work?