Benzophenone → tert-Butyl phenyl ketone

HRID 1589442Notes

Reaction equation

[C:1]([C:9]1[CH:14]=[CH:13][CH:12]=[CH:11][CH:10]=1)(=[O:8])[C:2]1[CH:7]=CC=C[CH:3]=1.[C:15](O)(=O)C(C)(C)C>>[C:9]1([C:1]([C:2]([CH3:3])([CH3:7])[CH3:15])=[O:8])[CH:10]=[CH:11][CH:12]=[CH:13][CH:14]=1

Participants

Reactant 2

HCID 3102Benzophenone

HCID 6417Pivalic acid

Product 1

HCID 70308tert-Butyl phenyl ketone

Procedure

This invention will be useful in reactions like: benzophenone and pivalic acid to obtain t-butyl phenyl ketone; 1,3-dichloroacetone and pivalic acid to obtain monochloropinacolone; and cyclopentanone and acetic acid to obtain 2,7-octanedione.

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-08e70fe2b5664d36a1360e37083749b0
Source dataset: uspto-grants-1986_02
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US04570021

Reaction notes

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