Aliphatics ketones

SchifT s reagent A solution of rosaniline in water decolorized with sulphurous acid. Aliphatic aldehydes and aldose sugars give a magenta colour with this reagent with aromatic aldehydes and aliphatic ketones the colour develops more slowly aromatic ketones do not react. 

Aliphatic ketones containing the CH3CO— group restore the colour very slowly to SchifTs reagent other ketones have no reaction. 

The following reactions are characteristic of aliphatic aldehydes those which are shared by ketones, due to the presence of the carbonyl group, are given under Aliphatic Ketones (Section 111,74). 

Dinitrophenylhydrazones. Small quantities may be prepared with the class reagent described in Section XI,7,4. A more satisfactory procedure is given under Aliphatic Ketones, Section 111,74,7. 

Semicarbazones. For experimental details, see under Aliphatic Ketones, Section 111,74,2. 

By dropping au aromatic acid either alone or mixed with an aliphatic acid into a tube containing a thoria catalyst deposited on pumice and heated to 400-450°. This method is generally employed for the preparation of mixed aromatic - aliphatic ketones. Excess of the aUphatic acid is usually present since this leads to by-products which are easily separated and also tends to increase the yield of the desired ketone at the expense of the symmetrical ketone of the aromatic acid. Thus —... 

Table 16. Toxicological Properties of Cyclic Ketones Compared with Aliphatic Ketones ...

This synthesis works especially well with cyclohexanone giving 80% oxaziridines with either chloramine (77JPR195) or (V-chloromethylamine. Simple aliphatic ketones and ortho substituted aromatic aldehydes yield 30-50% oxaziridines with N-chloromethylamine (65CB2516). 

By similar procedures diazirines were prepared not only from simple aliphatic ketones but also from hydroxyketones and )3-aminoketones (B-67MI50800), and so were a large number of diazirines from steroidal ketones (65JA2665). Permanganate, bromine, chlorine and hypochlorite were used as oxidants. A one-step preparation of diazirines from ketones like 3-nonanone, ammonia and chlorine has been claimed in a patent (66USP3290289). 3,3-Diazirinedicarboxylic acid derivatives like (286) were obtained directly from oxime tosylates by the action of two moles of O-ethoxyamine (81AG(E)200). 

The procedure described is an example of a more general synthetic method for the direct conversion of ketones into cyanides. " The reaction has been carried out successfully with acyclic and cyclic aliphatic ketones, including numerous steroidal ketones and aryl-alkyl ketones. The conversion of diaryl or highly hindered ketones such as camphor and )3,j8-dimethyl-a-tetralone requires the use of a more polar solvent. The dimethoxyethane used in the present procedure should be replaced by dimethyl sulfoxide. ... 

If ethoxyacetylene is allowed to react in an anhydrous system with aliphatic ketones in the presence of boron trifluoride etherate, the unsaturated acid is obtained directly. This variation apparently has not yet been tried on steroids. 

A simple aliphatic ketone such as acetone, when promoted to its n,n excited state, undergoes a single unimolecular photochemical reaction in high quantum yield namely a-cleavage giving a methyl and acetyl radical which react further in secondary dark processes. In general, competition... 

Aromatic aldehydes and cyclic perfluoroketones are oxidized to a-hydroxy hydroperoxides or bis(a-hydroxy) peroxides, aliphatic ketones are converted to esters, and ketenes are converted to a-lactones... 

Stability toward reduction makes hydrogen fluoride a good medium for different hydrogenation processes [1, 2] It is a useful solvent for the hydrogenation of benzene in the presence of Lewis acids [f ] Anhydrous hydrofluonc acid has pronounced catalytic effect on the hydrogenations of various aromatic compounds, aliphatic ketones, acids, esters, and anhydrides in the presence of platinum dioxide [2] (equations 1-3)... 

An adjacent tnfluoromethyl group sharply increases the electrophilic character of the carbonyl carbon Compounds that readily form hydrates and hemiacetals show a time-dependent reversible mhibition of the en yme acetylcholinesterase (equation 2), in which the tight complex makes inhibition only partially reversible [75] In comparison with a nonfluormated analogue, several aliphatic ketones flanked by CFj and CF2 groups, are exceptionally potent reversible inhibitors of acetylcholinesterase, as documented by companson of inhibition constants shown in equation 3 [16 ... 

Besides acetophenone, this reaction was also applied to p-chloro- andp-methoxyacetophenone, and even to an aliphatic ketone, acetone (although the yield was stated to be only half as large as that obtained from mesityl oxide, i.e., less than 30%, Dorofeenko and co-workers reported a 45% yield of 2,4,6-trimethylpyrylium perchlorate from acetone, acetic anhydride, and perchloric acid), and is the standard method for preparing pyrylium salts with identical substituents in positions 2 and 4. The acylating agent may be an anhydride in the presence of anhydrous or hydrated ferric chloride, or of boron fluoride, or the acid chloride with ferric chloride.Schneider and co-workers ... 

Although the addition of hydrazine and its derivatives to acetylenic ketones has been studied in considerable detail, their interaction with hydrazones and mono-alkylhydrazones is less well known. Yandovskii and Klindukhova (74ZOR730) have studied the reaction between hydrazones and alkylhydrazones of aliphatic ketones with dipropynylketones and showed that hydrazones of acetone, methyl-ethylketone, and cyclohexane easily add to one of the triple bonds of dipropynylketone to form 4-methyl-1,1,3-trialkyl-2,3-diaza-l,4-nonadien-7-yn-6-ones (yields... 

Much more complicated is the course of the reaction if the oxazirane is derived instead of from benzaldehyde from an aliphatic ketone. Here the possibility of an H-transfer does not occur. Further complications are found if the A -alkyl group can be attacked by the radicals. 

Because of the industrial magnitude of these processes, many catalysts have been examined with variations in metal distribution, pore size, and alkalinity. In most synthetic work where catalyst life and small variations in yield are not of great importance, most palladium-on-carbon or -on-alumina powder catalysts will be found satisfactory for conversion of phenols to cyclohexanones. Palladium has a relatively low tendency to reduce aliphatic ketones, and a sharp decrease in the rate of absorption occurs at about 2 mol of consumed hydrogen. Nickel may also be used but overhydrogenation is more apt to occur. 

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