Lithium Hydroxide → Hydrogen Peroxide

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In a three-necked 250 ml flask equipped with a magnetic stirrer and a reflux condenser were introduced 31 g of 2-pentyl cyclopentanone (0.2 mole), 31 g of anhydrous ethyl propionate, and 0.048 g (1 mol %) of anhydrous lithium hydroxide. The mixture was brought to reflux at ca. 100° C. Then 57.5 g (0.22 mole) of an anhydrous 13% w/w hydrogen peroxide solution in ethyl propionate, obtained from extraction of a 70% aqueous H2O2 solution by ethyl propionate, were slowly added over 4 h in the reactor while maintaining the reflux 2 h after the end of the introduction. The reaction mixture was then washed with 10% water to remove the non converted H202, and finally distilled to recover the solvent.

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