Mercury ethoxide

Pelargonic acid (n-Nonoic acid), CH3(CH2),COOH. Equip a 1-litre, three-necked flask with a reflux condenser, a mercury-sealed stirrer, a dropping funnel and a thermometer. Place 23 g. of sodium, cut in small pieces, in the flask, and add 500 ml. of anhydrous n-butyl alcohol (1) in two or three portions follow the experimental details given in Section 111,152 for the preparation of a solution of sodium ethoxide. When the sodium has reacted completely, allow the solution to cool to 70-80° and add 160 g. (152 ml.) of redistilled ethyl malonate rapidly and with stirring. Heat the solution to 80-90°, and place 182 5 g. (160 ml.) of n-heptyl bromide (compare experimental details in Section 111,37) in the dropping funnel. Add the bromide slowly at first until precipitation of sodium bromide commences, and subsequently at such a rate that the n-butyl alcohol refluxes gently. Reflux the mixture until it is neutral to moist litmus (about 1 hour). 

Ethyl phenylethylmalonate. In a dry 500 ml. round-bottomed flask, fitted with a reflux condenser and guard tube, prepare a solution of sodium ethoxide from 7 0 g. of clean sodium and 150 ml. of super dry ethyl alcohol in the usual manner add 1 5 ml. of pure ethyl acetate (dried over anhydrous calcium sulphate) to the solution at 60° and maintain this temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile equip a 1 litre threenecked flask with a dropping funnel, a mercury-sealed mechanical stirrer and a double surface reflux condenser the apparatus must be perfectly dry and guard tubes should be inserted in the funnel and condenser respectively. Place a mixture of 74 g. of ethyl phenylmalonate and 60 g. of ethyl iodide in the flask. Heat the apparatus in a bath at 80° and add the sodium ethoxide solution, with stirring, at such a rate that a drop of the reaction mixture when mixed with a drop of phenolphthalein indieator is never more than faintly pink. The addition occupies 2-2 -5 hoius continue the stirring for a fiuther 1 hour at 80°. Allow the flask to cool, equip it for distillation under reduced pressure (water pump) and distil off the alcohol. Add 100 ml. of water to the residue in the flask and extract the ester with three 100 ml. portions of benzene. Dry the combined extracts with anhydrous magnesium sulphate, distil off the benzene at atmospheric pressure and the residue under diminished pressure. C ollect the ethyl phenylethylmalonate at 159-160°/8 mm. The yield is 72 g. 

Aluminum and magnesium also react to form ethoxides, but the reaction must be cataly2ed by amalgamating the metal (adding a small amount of mercury). 

A. 2-Methyl-4-eihoxalylcyclopenlane-l,3,5-trione. A solution of sodium ethoxide is prepared in a 2-1. three-necked, round-bottomed flask fitted with a mercury-sealed stirrer, a reflux condenser carrying a drying tube, and a stopper by the addition of 69.0 g. (3 moles) of sodium to 950 ml. of absolute ethanol. The solution is cooled to 0-5° in an ice bath and stirred. The stopper is replaced by a dropping funnel, and a cold mixture (5-15°) of 108 g. (1.50 moles) of freshly distilled 2-butanone and 482 g. (3.30 moles) of diethyl oxalate (Note 1) is added gradually over a... 

Recently, an experimental reappraisal of this rearrangement was reported, in which cubyl phenyl ketone tosylhydrazone (1) was thermolyzed in an ethanolic sodium ethoxide solution to give a good yield of a 1.5 1 mixture of 9-ethoxy-9-phenylhomocubane (3) and 9-ethoxy-l-phenylhomocubane (4).3 In addition, photolysis (mercury arc, Pyrex filter) of cubylphenyldi-azomethane (2) in ethanol also produced a similar result.3... 

Acetylene is condensed to vinylacetylene and divinylacetylene by cuprous chloride and ammonium chloride. Similar additions of other compounds containing an active hydrogen atom occur in the presence of various catalysts. Mercury salts ate most effective in the vapor-phase reaction of acetylene with hydrogen chloride to give vinyl chloride (100%). Basic catalysts such as potassium hydroxide, potassium ethoxide, or zinc oxide are used for the vinylation of alcohols, glycols, amines, and acids. Most of these reactions involve the use of acetylene under pressure, and few have been described as simple laboratory procedures. Chloroacetic acid, however, reacts with acetylene at atmospheric pressure in the presence of mercuric oxide to yield vinyl chloro-acetate (49%). ... 

ICOBu-0 - cell (w Molhyllllhium). lym-Dinuoroletrachloroacetone (K.OBu-r) — CFCI. Ethyl trichloroacetale (NaOCHi) -< CX lj. Lithium ethoxide, generation of 2,2-diphenyl-cyclopropylidene. Phenyl(bromodichloro)mercury (80°) —> CBrj. Phenyl(trichloromethyl)-mercury (47 hrs. at 80° or Nal at 25°) -> CCli. Sodium chlorodifluoroacetate (heat) - CFs. Sodium trichloroacetate (heat) -> CCIj. 

Carbene generation Alumina—Potassium hydroxide. Bis(tribromomethyl)mercury. Bis (trimethylsilyldichloromethyl)mercury. Bromotrifluoromethane. n-Butyllithium. Copper (II) acetylacetonate. Diazoacetaldehyde. Di-n-chloro-x-allyldipalladium. Dichloromethyl 2-chloroethyl ether. Dicyanodiazomethane. sym-Difluorotetrachloroacetone. Ethylene oxide. Methyl dichlorofluoroacetate. Methyllithium. Phenyl (trichloromethyl)mercury. Sodium chlorodifluoroacetate. Sodium trichloroacetate. Thallous ethoxide. / -Toluene-sulfonyl-hydrazine. 

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