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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...
- (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...
- 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...
- 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)...
- ammonia and formaldehyde. It may also be prepared by the reaction of hydroxyacetone and formamide in ammonia. Small energy difference separates 4-methylimidazole...
- decarboxylase. It can then be further metabolized either by CYP2E1 into hydroxyacetone (acetol) and then via propylene glycol to pyruvate, lactate and acetate...