Archive for April 14th, 2013

Intermediates in oxime formation from hydroxylamine and propanone: now you see them, now you don’t.

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

A recent theme here has been to subject to scrutiny well-known mechanisms supposedly involving intermediates. These transients can often involve the creation/annihilation of charge separation resulting from  proton transfers, something that a cyclic mechanism can avoid. Here I revisit the formation of an oxime from hydroxylamine and propanone, but with one change. In the earlier post, I used two molecules of water to achieve the desired proton transfer. Now I look to see what effect replacing those two water molecules by a guanidine has.NH2OH+Guanidine

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