Isophorone → 3,3,4-Trimethyloxepan-2-one

HRID 1742506Notes

Reaction equation

[CH3:1][CH:2]1[CH2:7][CH2:6][CH2:5][C:4](=[O:8])[C:3]1([CH3:10])[CH3:9].[O:11]=C1CC(C)(C)CC(C)=C1>>[CH3:1][CH:2]1[CH2:7][CH2:6][CH2:5][O:8][C:4](=[O:11])[C:3]1([CH3:10])[CH3:9]

Participants

Reactant 2

HCID 6544Isophorone

HCID 3016570Cyclohexanone, trimethyl-

Product 1

HCID 215848063,3,4-Trimethyloxepan-2-one

Procedure

It is further noted that trimethylcyclohexanone can be prepared by a hydrogenation reaction of isophorone, followed by a Baeyer-Villiger reaction with a peracid to obtain trimethylcaprolactone on a commercial basis.

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-1d96a0b14dcf4b86bd6a908a0c9a5a74
Source dataset: uspto-grants-1994_08
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US05338879

Reaction notes

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