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Hydrogenated of mesityl oxide with acetic acid
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Can mesityl oxide be hydrogenated with glacial acetic acid, or other acid and maybe some other chemicals?
I don't want to use hydrogen and Pd catalyst.
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There is no way this could happen with only acid, maybe fe/hcl or something similar like zn/acoh. But these are very drastic reductions, often
resulting in alkanes when starting from ketones. Which product do you want to obtain?
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Methyl isobutyl ketone , would isopropanol or Formic acid work?
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You seriously need to learn chemistry, it is not because something can be oxidized that it will reduce chemical. Go learn a bit, tip:
Ammonium formate + Pd Cat
HgCl2 + Al
I never asked for this.
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plante1999, would the use of Al in this case not result in poor selectivity by way of reduction of the carbonyl? Also, did you not
mean HgCl2 + Al + iPrOH? I have no experience with Al reduction like this, so just curious.
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Al isopropoxide may work but I am not sure, it is more mild stuff
Still would reduce ketone to alcohol iirc, not sure about double bond
HgCl2 and Al will probably reduce to alkane like metal acid reduction
You need to reduce double bond while leaving ketone group intact which would mean hydrogenation with hydrogen and pd/c probably
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Poor selectivity, probably, although it would at least give some yield. I read about isopropoxide reduction, but I doubt it apply in this situation.
I never asked for this.
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Considering double bond reduction proved to be sucessful only with Pd/C in rheosmin and zingerone threads everything else would be not selective. If
this may work then zingerone could be made from unsaturated ketone from isopropoxide.
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Hold on, I'm still confused here...
| Quote: | | HgCl2 and Al will probably reduce to alkane like metal acid reduction |
Where does the hydrogen come from?
The reason I added the iPrOH is because I assumed you still needed a hydrogen donor?
andy, why are you keen to avoid Pd/C, I think any other way is bound to be (a)harder, (b)more expensive, (c) lower yielding and (d) a
bigger headache 
Remember, you can recover your Pd/C by filtration.
Is your worry that you don't want to hassle with H2 gas supply? That might be solvable by using formic acid as a hydrogen source with Pd/C as
mentioned. Also, you can construct a simple water electrolysis cell to supply you hydrogen that can bubbled directly to your hydrogenation setup. That
way you can generate large amounts of hydrogen as a steady stream for long periods of time and it would be cheap... well minus an initial investment
into decent electrodes.
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It was just the cost of Pd, thought there might be a cheap way  , and would have
gone down the electrolysis route, have got some carbon/Ti electrodes
Adding NaOH to acetone makes red diacetone, adding acetic acid and water turned it yellow, I'm guessing mesityl oxide , is this formula correct
CH3C(O)CH2C(OH)(CH3)2 + 3 CH3CO2H + -4 H2O = 4 CH3C(O)CH
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If you find that carbon anodes have insufficient durability for your water electrolysis needs, consider using IrO2/Ti anodes. It is my understanding
that these are favoured for water electrolysis.
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Trying to get my head around the experiments, does this formula make sense?
CH3C(O)CH + H2O + NaOH = CH3OH + CH3COONa
Mesityl oxide + Water + Sodium hydroxide = Methanol + Sodium acetate
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DeltaH hydrogen would come from the water as Al would be dissolving.
Andy, your last post makes no sense. No way this could be done.
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When I mix NaOH or ethanol with the mixture crystal form or a white gel, could it be sodium propionate and Ethyl propionate?
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No way... You barely know anything about organic chemistry. Please read up on some reaction mechanisms and function groups. Wikipedia will be a good
read here.
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