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Provided that there are enough carbon atoms that the angle strain is not too much, a cyclic ether can be formed. A common diol reaction to produce a cyclic ether. 1,2-diols and 1,3-diols can be protected using a protecting group. [13] Protecting groups are used so that the functional group does not react to future reactions.
In organic chemistry, an epoxide is a cyclic ether, where the ether forms a three-atom ring: two atoms of carbon and one atom of oxygen. This triangular structure has substantial ring strain, making epoxides highly reactive, more so than other ethers. They are produced on a large scale for many applications.
The ether then decomposes into an alkene and an alkoxide. Cyclic ethers allow for an especially quick concerted cleavage, as seen for THF: Deprotonated acyclic ethers perform beta-hydride elimination, forming an olefinic ether. The formed hydride then attacks the olefinic rest in α position to the ether oxygen, releasing the alkoxide.
Alcohol oxidation is a collection of oxidation reactions in organic chemistry that convert alcohols to aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, and esters. The reaction mainly applies to primary and secondary alcohols. Secondary alcohols form ketones, while primary alcohols form aldehydes or carboxylic acids. [1] A variety of oxidants can be used.
Ethylene glycol protects a ketone (as an acetal) during an ester reduction, vs. unprotected reduction to a diol. A protecting group or protective group is introduced into a molecule by chemical modification of a functional group to obtain chemoselectivity in a subsequent chemical reaction.
Particularly common spiro compounds are ketal (acetal) formed by condensation of cyclic ketones and diols and dithiols. [15] [16] [17] A simple case is the acetal 1,4-dioxaspiro[4.5]decane from cyclohexanone and glycol. Cases of such ketals and dithioketals are common.
A condensation reaction of neopentyl glycol with 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol gives CGP-7930. Neopentyl glycol is a precursor to Neopentyl glycol diglycidyl ether. The sequence begins with alkylation with epichlorohydrin using a Lewis acid catalyst. Dehydrochlorination of the resulting halohydrin with sodium hydroxide affords the desired ether. [5]
Glycol cleavage is a specific type of organic chemistry oxidation. The carbon–carbon bond in a vicinal diol (glycol) is cleaved and instead the two oxygen atoms become double-bonded to their respective carbon atoms. Depending on the substitution pattern in the diol, these carbonyls will be ketones and/or aldehydes. [1]