Mesoxalic acid

Mesoxalic acid[1]
Names
IUPAC name
oxopropanedioic acid
Other names
Ketomalonic acid
Oxomalonic acid
Alpha-ketomalonic acid
2-Oxopropanedioic acid
Identifiers
473-90-5 YesY
ChEBI CHEBI:30842 YesY
ChemSpider 9727 YesY
DrugBank DB03589 YesY
Jmol interactive 3D Image
KEGG C00830 YesY
PubChem 10132
Properties
C3H2O5
Molar mass 118.045 g/mol
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
YesY verify (what is YesYN ?)
Infobox references

Mesoxalic acid, also called oxomalonic acid or ketomalonic acid, is an organic compound with formula C3H2O5 or HO-(C=O)3-OH.

Mesoxalic acid is both a dicarboxylic acid and a ketonic acid. It readily loses two protons to yield the divalent anion C3O52, called mesoxalate, oxomalonate, or ketomalonate. These terms are also used for salts containing this anion, such as sodium mesoxalate, Na2C3O5); and for esters containing the -C3O5- or -O-(C=O)3-O- moiety, such as diethyl mesoxalate, C2H5)2C3O5. Mesoxalate is one of the oxocarbon anions, which (like carbonate CO32 and oxalate C2O42) consist solely of carbon and oxygen.

Mesoxalic acid readily absorbs and reacts with water to form a product commonly called "mesoxalic acid (mono)hydrate", more properly dihydroxymalonic acid, HO-(C=O)-C(OH)2-(C=O)-OH.[2] In product catalogs and other contexts, the terms "mesoxalic acid", "oxomalonic acid", etc. often refer to this "hydrated" compound. In particular, the product traded as "sodium mesoxalate monohydrate" is almost always sodium dihydroxymalonate.

Synthesis

Mesoxalic acid can be obtained synthetically by hydrolysis of alloxan with baryta water,[2] by warming caffuric acid with lead acetate solution,[2] or from glycerin diacetate and concentrated nitric acid in the cold. The product can be obtained also by oxidation of tartronic acid [3] or glycerol.[4] Since they are carried out in water, these procedures generally give the dihydroxy derivative.

It is also prepared by the oxidation of glycerol with the help of Bi(NO3)3.

See also

References

  1. Merck Index, 12th Edition, 5971.
  2. 1 2 3 Henry Enfield Roscoe (1888), A Treatise on Chemistry, volume 3, part2 Organic Chemistry, p. 161. D. Appleton and Co., New York.
  3. Rosaria Ciriminna and Mario Pagliaro (2004), Oxidation of tartronic acid and dihydroxyacetone to sodium mesoxalate mediated by TEMPO. Tetrahedron Letters, volume 45, issue 34, pp. 6381–6383. doi:10.1016/j.tetlet.2004.07.021
  4. Rosaria Ciriminna and Mario Pagliaro (2003), One-Pot Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Oxidation of Glycerol to Ketomalonic Acid Mediated by TEMPO. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, volume 345, issue 3, Pages 383–388. doi:10.1002/adsc.200390043
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, July 07, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.