1,4-Diketones are produced on treatment of monoketones with nickel peroxide; reaction occurs more readily with cyclic than with acyclic ketones, except in the case of activated (e.g. benzylic) ketones, and less readily at a branched site. Cyclohexanone gives, in addition to bicyclohexyl-2,2′-dione, variable amounts of 2-(cyclohex-1-enyloxy)cyclohexanone via the enol form of the ketone.
E. G. E. Hawkins and R. Large, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1974, 280 DOI: 10.1039/P19740000280
To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.
If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.
If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.
Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.
Please wait while we load your content...