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Direct conversion of some halogen hydroxy fatty acids into the corresponding methyl esters of ketoacids
Author(s) -
Rankoff D.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02631946
Subject(s) - chemistry , halogen , methanol , sulfuric acid , organic chemistry , silver nitrate , column chromatography , fraction (chemistry) , fatty acid , chromatography , alkyl
Conditions have been established for converting some methyl esters of halogen hydroxy fatty acids to keto esters in high yields of 90% of isolated product, by the action of mercuric sulfate and sulfuric acid in methanol. Investigation of the same conversion using silver nitrate has shown the formation of dihydroxy acid parallel with the keto ester. The crude reaction mixture was separated into fraction by column chromatography.