Citral → Citronellal

HRID 2174404Notes

Reaction equation

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

Participants

Reactant 2

HCID 638011Citral

HCID 643779Neral

Product 1

HCID 7794Citronellal

Procedure

A-7) asymmetrically hydrogenating at least one of geranial and neral to thereby obtain an optically active citronellal having an optical purity of from 70 to 99% e.e.,

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-bfb91f327844422f8c26f2e14f1a5659
Source dataset: uspto-grants-2015_06
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US09061959B2

Reaction notes

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