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    Potassium tert-butoxide (or potassium t-butoxide) is a chemical compound with the formula [(CH3)3COK]n (abbr. KOtBu). This colourless solid is a strong...
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    Lithium tert-butoxide is the metalorganic compound with the formula LiOC(CH3)3. A white solid, it is used as a strong base in organic synthesis. The compound...
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  • Thumbnail for Sodium tert-butoxide
    Sodium tert-butoxide forms clusters in the solid state, both hexamers and nonamers. Potassium tert-butoxide Lithium tert-butoxide Sodium tert-amyloxide...
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  • Thumbnail for Copper(I) tert-butoxide
    compounds. The compound was originally obtained by salt metathesis from lithium tert-butoxide and copper(I) chloride. An octameric form was obtained by alcoholysis...
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  • Thumbnail for Tert-Butyl alcohol
    carbonyl compounds. tert-Butyl alcohol is deprotonated with a strong base to give the alkoxide. Particularly common is potassium tert-butoxide, which is prepared...
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    Strunk, Sven (January 1984). "The "super-basic" butyllithium/potassium tert-butoxide mixture and other lickor-reagents". Tetrahedron Letters. 25 (7): 741–744...
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  • Examples include sodium tert-butoxide and potassium tert-butoxide. The following diagram shows how the hindered base, lithium diisopropylamide, is used...
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  • Schlosser's base is produced by combining n-butyllithium and potassium tert-butoxide in a one-to-one ratio. The high reactivity of Schlosser's base is exploited...
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  • such as lithium diisopropylamide). The Schlosser base (or Lochmann-Schlosser base), the combination of n-butyllithium and potassium tert-butoxide, is commonly...
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  • ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Lithium-isopropoxide#section=Chemical-and-Physical-Properties [Li(OtBu)]6, Lithium tert-butoxide, C4H9LiO 1907-33-1 Stable to...
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  • Thumbnail for Hexa(tert-butoxy)dimolybdenum(III)
    metathesis reaction from the THF complex of molybdenum trichloride and lithium tert-butoxide: 2 MoCl3(thf)3 + 6 LiOBu-t → Mo2(OBu-t)6 + 6 LiCl + 6 thf The complex...
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  • A modern synthesis involves the reaction of butyllithium, potassium tert-butoxide, and toluene. Although potassium hydride can also be used as a strong...
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  • of propylene with Schlosser's base, a mixture of potassium tert-butoxide and butyl lithium: CH2=CHCH3 + LiC4H9 + KOC(CH3)3 → KCH2CHCH2 + C4H10 + LiOC(CH3)3...
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    as oligomeric clusters or polymeric chains. For instance, potassium tert-butoxide consists of a cubane-like tetramer, [t-BuOK]4, that persists even in...
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  • transformation. Slow addition of preformed hydrazones to potassium tert-butoxide in DMSO as reaction medium instead of glycols allows hydrocarbon formation...
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    P4-t-Bu (category Tert-butyl compounds)
    quantitatively (96%) under mild conditions, compared to the potassium tert-butoxide/18-crown-6 system with only 75% yield. Alkylations on weakly acidic...
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    occurs in presence of a strongly basic solution, such as potassium tert-butoxide in dimethyl sulfoxide: However, the yield of this method is not substantial...
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    Alkali metal (redirect from Lithium family)
    reagent is Schlosser's base, a mixture of n-butyllithium and potassium tert-butoxide. This reagent reacts with propene to form the compound allylpotassium...
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    is a poor nucleophile. Bases with steric bulk, (such as in potassium tert-butoxide), are often poor nucleophiles. For example, when a 3° haloalkane is...
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    acetic acid, or 4 N hydrochloric acid Allyl — Removed with potassium tertbutoxide DABCO in methanol, palladium on activated carbon, or diverse platinum...
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    the more volatile component. In this way, ethoxides can be converted to butoxides, since ethanol (b.p. 78 °C) is more volatile than butanol (b.p. 118 °C)...
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  • Thumbnail for Holton Taxol total synthesis
    recycled to 17c through treatment with potassium tert-butoxide. Treatment of pure 17c with lithium tetramethylpiperidide and (±)-camphorsulfonyl oxaziridine...
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  • Thumbnail for Methylenetriphenylphosphorane
    estimated pKa of this carbon acid is near 15. Potassium tert-butoxide has been used in place of butyl lithium. Sodium amide has also been used a base....
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    Alkoxide (redirect from T-butoxide)
    Al4(OiPr)12 reagent for Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley reduction Potassium tert-butoxide, K4(OtBu)4 basic reagent in alcohol solution for organic elimination...
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    t-butoxide affords 3-tert-butoxy-1,2,3-triphenylcyclopropene, which converts to 1,2,3-triphenylcyclopropenium bromide after the elimination of tert-butoxide...
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  • Thumbnail for Danishefsky Taxol total synthesis
    The enolate was formed by the reaction of ketone 47 with potassium tert-butoxide, and subsequent reaction with phenylseleninic anhydride followed by...
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  • Thumbnail for Persistent carbene
    rate of reaction of this heterogeneous system, via the generation of tert-butoxide or dimsyl anion. However, these catalysts have proved ineffective for...
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  • alkyl is Schlosser's base, a mixture of n-butyllithium and potassium tert-butoxide. This reagent reacts with toluene to form the red-orange compound benzyl...
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    good leaving groups using strong bases such as sodium and potassium tert-butoxide. The subsequent addition of a nucleophile to the triple bond has low...
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  • Thumbnail for Tris(trimethylsilyl)phosphine
    gives phosphaalkynes, one example being tert-butylphosphaacetylene. Reaction with potassium tert-butoxide cleaves one P-Si bond, giving the phosphide...
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