How to prepare acetone from acid?
1 Answer
Nov 19, 2017
Well, you could prepare it with difficulty and much pfaff....
Explanation:
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So one way, is to make the acyl halide, and then react this species with a Grignard in the presence of copper salts....(the which makes some less active organocopper reagent, which adds to acyl halides).
But why make it when you can buy acetone for next to nothing.....?