Hexyl Ketone

A colorle liquid with a characteristic odor, methyl hexyl ketone is used os o solvent for viny compoun and dyes, and has been found particularly suitable in dispersing dyes in light petroleum oils or newsprint inks. 

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Methyl n-hexyl ketoxime. From methyl n hexyl ketone (Section 111,71) ill 90 per cent, yield. B.p. 106-108°/12 mm. 

This is due to methyl n-hexyl ketone in the original aec.-octyl alcohol it is most easily separated by steam distillation as described. 

In a process said to be operated in Britain castor oil is subjected to alkaline fusion under critically controlled conditions to produce a mixture of methyl hexyl ketone and w-hydroxydecanoic acid. Interaction of these two materials at higher... 

Ethyl hexyl ketone, nlOO Ethyl hydrogen adipate, el77 /V-Ethyl-/V-(2-hydroxyethyl)-3-toluidine, e267 Ethyl 2-hydroxy-2-methylpropanoate, el82 Ethyl 2-hydroxypropionate, el94 Ethylidene bromide, d96... 

Early studies of the asymmetric reduction of prochiral ketones by chiral aluminum alkoxides have been reviewed by Morrison and Mosher (1). Doering and Young (123) reported the reduction of methyl cyclohexyl ketone with chiral 3-methyl-2-butanol in the presence of a catalytic amount of aluminum alkoxide to give the (S)-( + )-carbinol in a 22% optical yield. Jackman and co-workers (124) similarly reduced methyl n-hexyl ketone with chiral 3,3-dimethyl-2-butanol to the (S)-( - )-carbinol in a 6% optical yield. Other attempts resulted in similar low optical yields or gave only racemic products. Since the reductions were carried out under equilibrium conditions, racemization could have accounted for the low optical yields. 

Similarly, acetylation of thieno[3,2-6]thiophene (2) afforded 2-acetyl-thieno[3,2-6]thiophene, which was converted into methyl n-hexyl ketone by desulfurization with Raney nickel. Oxidation of 2-acetylthieno-[3,2-i]thiophene followed by nitration gave 5-nitrothieno[3,2-6]-thiophene-2-carboxylic acid. Decarboxylation of the latter furnished 2-nitrothieno[3,2-ft]thiophene identical with the compound obtained by direct nitration of thienothiophene 2 [Eq. (60)]. 

Problem 6.48 Write the initiation and the propagation steps for a free-radical-catalyzed (RO-) addition of CH,CH=0 to 1-hexene to form methyl n-hexyl ketone,... 

Methyl n-amyl carbinol. 247, 254 Methyl n-amyl ketone, 482 Methylaniline (mono), pure, from commercial methylaniline, 562, 570 P-Methylanthraquinone, 728, 740 Methyl benzoate, 780, 781 p-Methyl benzyl alcohol, 811,812 Methyl benzyl ketone, 727, 735 Methyl y-bromocrotonate, 926, 927 2-Methyl-2-butene, 239 Methyl n-butyl carbinol, 247,255 Methyl n-butyl ether, 314 Methyl n-butyl ketone, 475, 481 4-Methylcarbostyril, 855 p-Methylcinnamic acid, 719 4-Methylcoumarin, 853, 854 Methyl crotonate, 926, 927 Methylethylacetic acid, 354, 358 Methylethylethynyl carbinol, 468 Methyl ethyl ketone, 335, 336 purification of, 172 Methyl n-hexyl ether, 314 Methyl n-hexyl ketone, 335, 336 Methyl n-hexyl ketoxime, 348 Methyl hydrogen adipate, 938 Methyl hydrogen sebacate, 938,939 4-Methyl-7-hydroxycoumarin, 834 Methyl iodide, 287 Methyl isopropyl carbinol, 247,255 Methyl 4-keto-octanoate, 936... 

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