Acetophenone → Acetophenone

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To a stirred solution of acetophenone (24.3 g.) in ethanol (50 c.c.) containing ammonium acetate (1.6 g.) and kept at or below 0°C, was added 1-amino-3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexyl hydroperoxide (17.3 g.; pure). The solution was kept at 0°C overnight and then worked up as in the previous Examples to give unreacted acetophenone and dihydroisophorone, and a fraction (4.8 g.), b.p. 126° - 130°C/0.5 mm.Hg. with a peroxide equivalent of 407, shown by mass spectroscopy to contain the peroxide ##SPC59##

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