1-Decanol → Magnesium decanolate

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Reaction Steps

If magnesium isopropanolate, together with e.g., 20 moles % of tetrabutoxy titanium, with respect to the amount of magnesium, and one or two equivalents of decanol, is introduced into an organic solvent, and the mixture is heated, a desirably low-viscosity solution of magnesium isopropanolatedecanolate, and/or of magnesium didecanolate, is formed, from which the liberated isopropanol can now readily be evaporated so as to achieve substantially full completion of the reaction.

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