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The Cannizzaro reaction, named after its discoverer Stanislao Cannizzaro, is a chemical reaction which involves the base-induced disproportionation of two molecules of a non-enolizable aldehyde to give a primary alcohol and a carboxylic acid. [1] [2]
Stanislao Cannizzaro FRS (/ ˌ k æ n ɪ ˈ z ɑːr oʊ / KAN-iz-AR-oh, [1] also US: /-ɪ t ˈ s ɑːr-/-it-SAR-, [2] Italian: [staniˈzlaːo kannitˈtsaːro]; 13 July 1826 – 10 May 1910) was an Italian chemist. He is famous for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe ...
The reaction is named after Russian organic chemist Vyacheslav Tishchenko, who discovered that aluminium alkoxides are effective catalysts for the reaction. [1] [2] [3] In the related Cannizzaro reaction, the base is sodium hydroxide and then the oxidation product is a carboxylic acid and the reduction product is an alcohol.
In the context of butanol fuel, isobutyraldehyde is of interest as a precursor to isobutanol. E. coli as well as several other organisms has been genetically modified to produce isobutanol. α-Ketoisovalerate, derived from oxidative deamination of valine, is prone to decarboxylation to give isobutyraldehyde, which is susceptible to reduction to the alcohol: [3]
Trimethylolethane is produced via a two step process, starting with the condensation reaction of propionaldehyde with formaldehyde: CH 3 CH 2 CHO + 2 CH 2 O → CH 3 C(CH 2 OH) 2 CHO. The second step entails a Cannizzaro reaction: CH 3 C(CH 2 OH) 2 CHO + CH 2 O + NaOH → CH 3 C(CH 2 OH) 3 + NaO 2 CH. A few thousand tons are produced annually ...
For laboratory use, Grignard reaction of phenylmagnesium bromide (C 6 H 5 MgBr) with formaldehyde and the Cannizzaro reaction of benzaldehyde also give benzyl alcohol. The latter also gives benzoic acid, an example of an organic disproportionation reaction.
The RXNO Ontology is a formal ontology of chemical named reactions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was originally developed at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and is associated with the Open Biomedical Ontologies Foundry .
The Chugaev elimination is a chemical reaction that involves the elimination of water from alcohols to produce alkenes.The intermediate is a xanthate.It is named for its discoverer, the Russian chemist Lev Aleksandrovich Chugaev (1873–1922), who first reported the reaction sequence in 1899.