Please don't beat me
I promise I searched first....
I was perusing a very interesting chemistry book, and tho my chemistry is very weak, something jumped out at me.
It seems very possible to join acetone to toluene to get P2P. Am I too far off base here?
Here is my imagined procedure:
0.2 mol of NaOH is dissolved in 2 moles of acetone.
1 mole of toluene is added.
The mixture is stirred, and if necesary, heat added.
The ~1 mole of P2P is removed by distillation or freezing...
This is adapted from a method to join a benzyl ketone or something to an acetone. It says to use an "excess" of acetone, how ever much that might be, to keep the P2P from bonding to eachother. I think it implied the conditions were very mild, room temp and pressure.
Would this work? Why or why not?
