Isoamyl Nitrite → 6-Methyl-2-hydroxyimino-1-indanone

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6-Methylindan-1-one (5.00 g, 34.2 mmol) and 4N hydrochloric acid-dioxane solution (2 ml) were added to ethanol (30 ml), isoamyl nitrite (5.1 ml, (37.6 mmol) was added under ice-cooling, and the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 3 hr. The precipitated solid was collected by filtration and washed with diisopropyl ether to give the title compound (5.36 g, yield 89%) as a pale-yellow solid.

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