Nitro compds., aliphatic ketones

Solubility. No quant data is in the literature. In Ref 11, p 19 die order of decreasing soly is given as w, ketones, ales)) esters) organic acids, aliphatic nitro compds) ethers, chlorinated hydrocarbons, hydrocarbons. Within each class the solubility decreases with increasing chain length... 

Classification Aliphatic nitro compd. nitroparaffin Empirical C3H7NO2 Formula CH3CH(N02)CH3 Properties Colorless to very It. yel. clear oily liq. mild fruity odor sol. in most aromatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, esters, ketones, chloroform, ethers, lower carboxylic acids si. sol. in water m.w. 89.09 sp.gr. 0.992 (20/20 C) vapor... 

Titanium trichloride Ketones from aliphatic nitro compds. 

Lower valent tungsten halides are a new class of deoxygenation agents, e.g. for the conversion of carbonyl or epoxy compounds into olefins . A new reagent, generated in situ from iron pentacarbonyl and a small amount of base in moist solvents, selectively and efficiently hydrogenates the ethylenic portion of a,/ -unsaturated carbonyl compounds, such as ketones or lactones, under mild conditions. Aliphatic tert. amides can be easily reduced to alcohols by alkali metals in hexa-methylphosphoramide and a protic cosolvent such as tert-butanol. Aldehydes can be obtained from acids by catalytic reduction of intermediate carboxylic alkoxyformic anhydrides . Sec. nitro compds. are converted into ketones by the joint action of a nitrite ester and NaNOg under mild, non-acidic conditions . 

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