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0.9152 g/cm 3: Boiling point: 54–57 °C (129–135 °F; 327–330 K) ... Its acetal can be prepared from acrolein. [2] Occurrence in interstellar medium
This page contains tables of azeotrope data for various binary and ternary mixtures of solvents. The data include the composition of a mixture by weight (in binary azeotropes, when only one fraction is given, it is the fraction of the second component), the boiling point (b.p.) of a component, the boiling point of a mixture, and the specific gravity of the mixture.
Acrolein (systematic name: propenal) is the simplest unsaturated aldehyde.It is a colorless liquid with a foul and acrid aroma. The smell of burnt fat (as when cooking oil is heated to its smoke point) is caused by glycerol in the burning fat breaking down into acrolein.
Propionaldehyde exhibits the reactions characteristic of alkyl aldehydes, e.g. hydrogenation, aldol condensations, oxidations, etc. It is the simplest aldehyde with a prochiral methylene such that α-functionalized derivatives (CH 3 CH(X)CHO) are chiral. If water is available, propionaldehyde exists in equilibrium with 1,1-propanediol, a ...
The product, CH 3 CH(OCH 2 CH 3) 2, is formally named 1,1-diethoxyethane but is commonly referred to as "acetal". [39] This can cause confusion as "acetal" is more commonly used to describe compounds with the functional groups RCH(OR') 2 or RR'C(OR'') 2 rather than referring to this specific compound — in fact, 1,1-diethoxyethane is also ...
Reaction of the sodium cyanoacetate with ethyl bromide in an aqueous–organic two-phase system in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst. [ 4 ] Oxidation of 3-ethoxypropionitrile, an ether , with oxygen under pressure in the presence of cobalt(II) acetate tetrahydrate as catalyst and N -hydroxyphthalimide as a radical generator.
ch 3 ch 2 ch 2 oh + o 2 + nh 3 → ch 3 ch 2 c≡n + 3 h 2 o Propionitrile is a byproduct of the electrodimerisation of acrylonitrile to adiponitrile . In the laboratory propanenitrile can also be produced by the dehydration of propionamide , by catalytic reduction of acrylonitrile , or by distilling ethyl sulfate and potassium cyanide .
The flask on the right is a solution of lithium diisopropylamide (LDA) in tetrahydrofuran (THF). The flask on the left is a solution of the lithium enolate of tert-butyl propionate (formed by addition of LDA to tert-butyl propionate). An aldehyde can then be added to the enolate flask to initiate an aldol addition reaction.