Hydrochloric Acid → Ethyl pivaloylacetate

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250 g of potassium-tert.-butylate were suspended in a solution of 480 cc of diethyl carbonate and 100 cc of hexamethyl phosphoric acid triamide, followed by the gradual dropwise addition of 100 g pinacolone at 45° C/normal pressure. On completion of the addition, the mixture was stirred for 1 hour at 45° C and, after cooling, alcohol, water and finally hydrochloric acid carefully added one after the other to the reaction mixture. The reaction mixture was then treated and purified in the same way as described in 1 above. The yield was 67% of pivaloyl acetic acid ethyl ester.

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