Methanol → 3-Methoxycyclohexanone

HRID 971485Notes

Reaction equation

[C:1]1(=O)[CH2:6][CH2:5][CH2:4][CH2:3][C:2]1=[O:7].[CH3:9][OH:10]>>[CH3:9][O:10][CH:6]1[CH2:5][CH2:4][CH2:3][C:2](=[O:7])[CH2:1]1

Participants

Reactant 2

HCID 887Methanol

HCID 130061,2-Cyclohexanedione

Product 1

HCID 5348243-Methoxycyclohexanone

Procedure

If methanol is used as solvent (example 5), which esterifies with cyclohexane-dione to yield 3-methoxy-cyclo-hexanone, resorcinol-monomethyl ether is formed as by-product.

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-0a47a04c46d44f65aec4a27d8d7084f1
Source dataset: uspto-grants-1979_07
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US04160113

Reaction notes

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