Clear colorless to pale yellow liquid
Ethyl 2-Oxocyclohexanecarboxylate is used in biocatalysis.
Ethyl 2-oxocyclohexanecarboxylate is used to produce other chemicals. For example, it can react with 4-methyl-aniline to get 2-oxo-cyclohexanecarboxylic acid p-toluidide. The reaction occurs with reagent DMAP
The reaction of ethyl 2-oxo cyclohexane carboxylate (I) with phenyl vinyl sulphoxide (II) and sodium hydride followed by pyrolysis of the resulting phenyl sulphonyl ethyl compound (III) gives the 1-vinyl compound (IV).
Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of methyl 3- and 4-oxocyclohexanecarboxylates gave the expected hexanolides, whereas ethyl 2-oxocyclohexanecarboxylate(I) gave 5-ethoxyoxalylpentanoic acid by way of ethyl 1-hydroxy-2-oxocyclohexanecarboxylate, formed by epoxidation of the enol form of (I)[1-2].
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DOI: 10.1021/jo00239a038Tetrahedron Letters, 7, p. 2201, 1966
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[2] G. Koppel, M. D. Kinnick. “Phenyl vinyl sulphoxide, a vinyl carbonium ion synthetic equivalent.” Journal of The Chemical Society, Chemical Communications 27 1 (1975): 473–473.
