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Hydroxyacetone, also
known as acetol, is the
organic chemical with the
formula CH3C(O)CH2OH. It
consists of a
primary alcohol substituent on acetone. It...
- (C=O)
compounds or
oxidation of ketones. The
simplest such
compound is
hydroxyacetone. If the
alcohol is primary, alpha-hydroxy
ketones give a
positive Fehling's...
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reagent in
organic synthesis. It is, for example, the
precursor to
hydroxyacetone by
reaction with
aqueous sodium hydroxide. Use of
poison gas in World...
- the
antibacterial levofloxacin, can be
synthesized efficiently from
hydroxyacetone by
using catalysts based on BINAP-ruthenium complexes, in
Noyori asymmetric...
- (S)-Lactaldehyde (R)-Lactaldehyde
Reuterin (3-hydroxypropanal)
Methoxyacetaldehyde Hydroxyacetone 1-Propene-1,1-diol 1-Propene-1,2-diol (E)-1-Propene-1,2-diol (Z)-1-Propene-1...
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Oxidation of
glycerol affords mesoxalic acid.
Dehydrating glycerol affords hydroxyacetone.
Chlorination of
glycerol gives the 1-chloropropane-2,3-diol: HOCH(CH2OH)2...
- Keto-enediol tautomerizations.
Enediol in the center;
acyloin isomers at left and right. Ex. is
hydroxyacetone,
shown at right....
- indigo. The
reduction step is
typically achieved with
sodium dithionite,
hydroxyacetone and hydrogen, or by
electrochemical methods.
Indigo white (leucoindigo)...
- decarboxylase. It can then be
further metabolized either by CYP2E1 into
hydroxyacetone (acetol) and then via
propylene glycol to pyruvate,
lactate and acetate...
- dithionates,
reducing saccharides (e.g. glucose), α-hydroxyketones (e.g.,
hydroxyacetone),
substituted boron hydrides and
silicon hydrides. The
oxidized dyes...
