Chemistry > Aldehydes and Ketones > 2.0 Methods of Preparation

  Aldehydes and Ketones
    1.0 Introduction
    2.0 Methods of Preparation
    3.0 Physical Properties
    4.0 Relative Reactivities of Carbonyl Compounds
    5.0 Addition of Carbon Nucleophiles
    6.0 Haloform Reactions
    7.0 Aldol Condensations
    8.0 Claisen Condensation
    9.0 Intramolecular Claisen Condensation
    10.0 Cannizzaro Reaction
    11.0 Reformatsky Reaction
    12.0 Addition of Nitrogen Nucleophiles
    13.0 Addition of Oxygen Nucleophile
    14.0 Addition of Sulphur Nucleophile
    15.0 Oxidation of Aldehydes And Ketones
    16.0 Reduction of Aldehyde and Ketones
    17.0 Other Reactions Of Aldehydes And Ketones

2.6 By heating calcium salt of fatty acids

Aldehydes are obtained by heating calcium salts of fatty acids with calcium formate to about 675 K.


Ketones are formed by distilling calcium salt of the fatty acid alone.

Rosenmund Reduction: A classical method for the preparation of an aldehyde from the corresponding acid chloride involves catalytic reduction over partially deactivated (by sulphur or quinoline) palladized barium sulphate or carbonate (Rosenmund reduction). The following mechanism seems to operate.

The partial deactivation of the catalyst is necessary to obviate further reduction of the product aldehyde.


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