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Title: Acetone Enolate via lithium
Post by: timsong on November 30, 2001, 03:56:00 PM

Can the sodium metal in the procedure for making Acetone Enolate be substitutes with lithium metal, or will the lithium ethoxide not be strong enough (if there is such a thing as lithium ethoxide ?)

Title: Re: Acetone Enolate via lithium
Post by: Rhodium on November 30, 2001, 04:25:00 PM

Lithium is okay to use, but it is the anion that is critical. I don't know if ethoxide is a strong enough base, but tert-butoxide certainly is, and perhaps isopropoxide is.