Alcohol reaction with potassium

Chloroacetate esters are usually made by removing water from a mixture of chloroacetic acid and the corresponding alcohol. Reaction of alcohol with chloroacetyl chloride is an anhydrous process which Hberates HCl. Chloroacetic acid will react with olefins in the presence of a catalyst to yield chloroacetate esters. Dichloroacetic and trichloroacetic acid esters are also known. These esters are usehil in synthesis. They are more reactive than the parent acids. Ethyl chloroacetate can be converted to sodium fluoroacetate by reaction with potassium fluoride (see Fluorine compounds, organic). Both methyl and ethyl chloroacetate are used as agricultural and pharmaceutical intermediates, specialty solvents, flavors, and fragrances. Methyl chloroacetate and P ionone undergo a Dar2ens reaction to form an intermediate in the synthesis of Vitamin A. Reaction of methyl chloroacetate with ammonia produces chloroacetamide [79-07-2] C2H ClNO (53). 

The amide group is readily hydrolyzed to acrylic acid, and this reaction is kinetically faster in base than in acid solutions (5,32,33). However, hydrolysis of N-alkyl derivatives proceeds at slower rates. The presence of an electron-with-drawing group on nitrogen not only facilitates hydrolysis but also affects the polymerization behavior of these derivatives (34,35). With concentrated sulfuric acid, acrylamide forms acrylamide sulfate salt, the intermediate of the former sulfuric acid process for producing acrylamide commercially. Further reaction of the salt with alcohols produces acrylate esters (5). In strongly alkaline anhydrous solutions a potassium salt can be formed by reaction with potassium / /-butoxide in tert-huty alcohol at room temperature (36). 

Terminally unsaturated fluonnated alkenoic acids can be obtained from poly-fluorocycloalkenes by reaction with potassium hydroxide m rert-butyl alcohol [24] (equation 26) The use of a tertiary alcohol is critical because primary and secondar y alcohols lead to ethers of the cycloalkenes The use of a polar aprotic solvent such as diglyme generates enols of diketones [26] (equation 27) The compound where... 

The small effect on reaction rates of the addition of crown ethers to the lower alcohols was also observed in the reaction of potassium acetate with 1-bromobutane in ethanol (Hirao et al., 1978a,b). The displacement of fluorine in either o-nitro- or p-nitro-fluorobenzene by a methoxy group, by reaction with potassium methoxide in methanol was hardly influenced by the presence of dicyclohexyl-18-crown-6 (Del Cima et al., 1973). Mariani et al. (1978), too,... 

Chemical methods used for the determination of hydroxyl groups or alcoholic constituents in polymers are based on acetylation [16-18], phthalation [18], and reaction with phenyl isocyanate [18,19] or, when two adjacent hydroxy groups are present in the polymers, by reaction with potassium periodate [9,17]. Alcoholic hydroxyl groups may be found in the following polymers (1) poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) [20], (2) poly(methyl acrylate), [21], (3) poly(methyl methacrylate) [21], and (4) polyhydric alcohols in hydrolysates of poly(ester) resins [22]. 

The nucleophilic displacement of halogens by fluorine can be successfully carried out by reaction with potassium fluoride under several conditions. Primary and secondary alkyl halides 1 are converted to the corresponding fluorides 2 by heating with a saturated aqueous solution of potassium fluoride in the presence of catalytic amounts of hexadecyltributylphosphonium bromide.56 Small amounts of the corresponding alcohol and the olefinic elimination product are formed as side products. While neopentyl bromide does not react at all, polyhaloalkanes give only products of elimination or hydrolysis. Chlorocyclohexane gives only the elimination product.56... 

Deoxygenation of alcohols. Alcohols, particularly tertiary ones that can form stable carbanions, are deoxygenated by reaction with potassium and iron carbonyl in toluene. The reduction proceeds through the potassium alkoxidc.1 Examples ... 

Phenyl-2//-pyrimido[ 1,2-b]pyridazin-2-one (71) is cleaved by reaction with potassium isopropoxide in refluxing isopropyl alcohol to give the pyrimidinone (72) (72M1591). 

Dehydration of 124 to the expected 1-seleno-l-vinylcyclopropanes was succesful only with tertiary alcohols of this type it required the use of thionyl chloride in the presence of triethylamine, pyridine or hexamethylphosphorus triamide followed by reaction with potassium t-butoxide in DMSO, or the use of the Burgess reagent... 

Oxidation of anopteryl alcohol (74) with potassium ferricyanide gave an 8% yield of a compound with either structure (78) or (79). The major product of this reaction (following purification by acetylation and then alkaline hydrolysis of the acetylated product) was determined to be (80) by an X-ray crystallographic analysis. Acetylation of (80) gave (81). 

Mutation data reported. Combustible when exposed to heat or flame can react with oxidizing materials. Moisture causes liberation of H2SO4. Violent reaction with potassium tert-butoxide. Reacts violently with 3,8-dinitro-6-phenylphenanthridine + water. Reaction with iron + water forms explosive hydrogen gas. To fight fire, use alcohol foam, H2O foam, CO2, dry chemicals. When heated to decomposition it emits toxic fumes of SOx. See also SULFATES. 

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