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AcetalisationAcetalisation is an organic reaction that involves the formation of an acetal or ketal. One way of acetal formation is the nucleophilic addition of an alcohol to a ketone or an aldehyde. Acetalisation is often used in organic synthesis to create a protecting group because it is a reversible reaction. Acetalisation of carbonyl groups by alcoholsAdditional recommended knowledgeAcetalisation is acid catalysed with elimination of water. The reaction can be driven to the acetal when water is removed from the reaction system either by azeotropic distillation or trapping water with molecular sieves or aluminium oxide. The general reaction mechanism for acetalisation of a carbonyl group is shown below. The carbonyl group in 1 abstracts a proton from hydrochloric acid. The protonated carbonyl group 2 is activated for nucleophilic addition of the alcohol. The structures 2a and 2b are mesomers. After deprotonation of 3 by water the hemiacetal or hemiketal 4 is formed. The hydroxyl group in 4 is protonated leading to the oxonium ion 6 which accepts a second alcohol group to 7 with a final deprotonation to the acetal 8. The reverse reaction takes place by adding water in the same acidic medium. Acetals are stable towards basic media. In a transacetalisation or crossacetalisation a diol reacts with an acetal or two different acetals react with each other. Again this is possible because all the reaction steps are equilibria. ExamplesOne typical example is the acetalisation of 3-bromo-3-methyl-butan-2-one: Other acetalisation examples can be found in mutarotation and carbohydrate acetalisation. References[1] 2-(1-Bromo-1-methyl-ethyl)-2-methyl-[1,3]dioxolane Juan M. Castro, Pablo J. Linares-Palomino, Sofia Salido, Joaquan Altarejos Manuel Nogueras, Adolfo Sanchez Molbank 2004, M387 [1] open access publication. |
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