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Pinacol is a white solid organic compound. It is a diol that has
Pinacol can be used with borane and boron trichloride to produce useful synthetic intermediates such as
hydroxyl groups
In chemistry, a hydroxy or hydroxyl group is a functional group with the chemical formula and composed of one oxygen atom covalently bonded to one hydrogen atom. In organic chemistry, alcohols and carboxylic acids contain one or more hydroxy ...
(-OH) on vicinal carbon atoms.
Preparation
It may be produced by thepinacol coupling reaction A pinacol coupling reaction is an organic reaction in which a carbon–carbon bond is formed between the carbonyl groups of an aldehyde or a ketone in presence of an electron donor in a free radical process. The reaction product is a vicinal diol. ...
from
acetone
Acetone (2-propanone or dimethyl ketone), is an organic compound with the formula . It is the simplest and smallest ketone (). It is a colorless, highly volatile and flammable liquid with a characteristic pungent odour.
Acetone is miscib ...
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Reactions
As a vicinal-diol, it can rearrange topinacolone
Pinacolone (3,3-dimethyl-2-butanone) is an important ketone in organic chemistry. It is a colorless liquid and has a slight peppermint- or camphor- odor. It is a precursor to triazolylpinacolone in the synthesis of the fungicide triadimefon and ...
by the pinacol rearrangement
The pinacol–pinacolone rearrangement is a method for converting a 1,2-diol to a carbonyl compound in organic chemistry. The 1,2-rearrangement takes place under acidic conditions. The name of the rearrangement reaction comes from the rearrangemen ...
, e.g. by heating with sulfuric acid
Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid ( Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen and hydrogen, with the molecular formu ...
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Pinacol can be used with borane and boron trichloride to produce useful synthetic intermediates such as pinacolborane
Pinacolborane is the borane
Trihydridoboron, also known as borane or borine, is an unstable and highly reactive molecule with the chemical formula . The preparation of borane carbonyl, BH3(CO), played an important role in exploring the chemist ...
, bis(pinacolato)diboron
Bis(pinacolato)diboron is a covalent compound containing two boron atoms and two pinacolato ligands. It has the formula CH3)4C2O2Bsub>2; the pinacol groups are sometimes abbreviated as "pin", so the structure is sometimes represented as B2pin2. It ...
,{{OrgSynth , collvol = 10 , collvolpages = 115 , year = 2004 , prep = v77p0176 , title = Bis(pinacolato)diboron , author1 = Tatsuo Ishiyama, author2= Miki Murata, author3=Taka-aki Ahiko, author4-link= Norio Miyaura, author4=Norio Miyaura and pinacolchloroborane.
See also
*Semipinacol rearrangement The semipinacol rearrangement is a rearrangement reaction in organic chemistry involving a heterosubstituted alcohol of the type R1R2(HO)C–C(X)R3R4. The hetero substituent can be a halogen (Cl, Br, I), a tosylate, a mesylate or a thiol group. Th ...
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