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Potassium tert-butoxide

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reagent grade, ≥98%

Synonym(s):

Potassium tert-butylate, Potassium t-butoxide

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Linear Formula:
(CH3)3COK
CAS Number:
865-47-4
Molecular Weight:
112.21
Beilstein:
3556712
EC Number:
212-740-3
MDL number:
MFCD00012162
UNSPSC Code:
12352303
PubChem Substance ID:
24849626
NACRES:
NA.22

grade

reagent grade

Quality Level

200

vapor pressure

1 mmHg ( 220 °C)

Assay

≥98%

form

solid

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256-258 °C (dec.) (lit.)

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Aligned,

SMILES string

[K+].CC(C)(C)[O-]

InChI

1S/C4H9O.K/c1-4(2,3)5;/h1-3H3;/q-1;+1

InChI key

LPNYRYFBWFDTMA-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

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Application

Potassium tert-butoxide has been used as a strong base in the enantioselective synthesis of amines by transfer hydrogenation of N-(tertbutylsulfinyl)imines.
It can also be used:
  • To synthesize aliphatic and aromatic amides from corresponding esters and amines.
  • As a base in the intramolecular cyclization of aryl ethers, amines, and amides.
  • As a catalyst to prepare styrene derivatives from aryl halides and alkenes by Mizoroki-Heck reaction.

Used for greener amidation of esters.

tert-Butoxide-Assisted Amidation of Esters under Green Conditions

Potassium tert-butoxide may be used as a base in the intramolecular cyclization of iodo arene to afford benzopyran via microwave method of synthesis.

Pictograms

FlameCorrosion
GHS02,GHS05

Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Statements

H228,H252,H314

Hazard Classifications

Eye Dam. 1 - Flam. Sol. 1 - Self-heat. 2 - Skin Corr. 1A

Supplementary Hazards

EUH014

Storage Class Code

4.2 - Pyrophoric and self-heating hazardous materials

WGK

WGK 1

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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Mizoroki-Heck-type reaction mediated by potassium tert-butoxide
Shirakawa E, et al.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 123(20), 4767-4770 (2011)
"Potassium tert-Butoxide Promoted Intramolecular Arylation via a Radical Pathway"
Roman SD, et al.
Organic Letters, 13(12), 3242-3245 (2011)
tert-Butoxide-assisted amidation of esters under green conditions
Kim Bo Ram, et al.
Synthesis, 44(01), 42-50 (2012)
Hajime Ito et al.
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), 48(64), 8006-8008 (2012-07-10)
The regio- and diastereoselective silaboration of aromatic alkenes with a silylboron compound proceeds in the presence of a catalytic amount of potassium tert-butoxide, providing a complementary method to the corresponding transition metal-catalyzed reactions.
Aurélie Mallinger et al.
The Journal of organic chemistry, 74(3), 1124-1129 (2008-12-24)
3-Aryltetronic acids were prepared in one step by treatment of a mixture of methyl arylacetates and methyl hydroxyacetates with potassium tert-butoxide, via tandem transesterification/Dieckmann condensation. Several mushroom or lichen pigments, vulpinic acids, were synthesized from 3-(4-methoxyphenyl)tetronic acid in three steps
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