Interaction | Reaction | Process     Data Page

Acetone vapour is thermolysed (cracked) in a ketene generator, or "ketene lamp", to ketene and methane.

The process is also employed industrially for the manufacture of acetic anhydride.

Reagent for Organic Synthesis Volume 1. Fieser & Fieser, John Wiley and Sons
         
H2C=C=O
  +  
CH4
Reactant Page Go To Go To
Acetone     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Ketene     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming
Methane     Reactions Using    Reactions Forming

Interaction, Reaction, Process defined as:
Industrial Process: Organic
Radical Coupling
Radical Substitution
Thermolysis of Acetone

© Mark R. Leach 1999 –

Queries, Suggestions, Bugs, Errors, Typos...

If you have any:

Queries
Comments
Suggestions
Suggestions for links
Bug, typo or grammatical error reports about this page,

please contact Mark R. Leach, the author, using mark@meta-synthesis.com