- Mesoxalic acid
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Mesoxalic acid oxopropanedioic acidOther namesKetomalonic acid
Oxomalonic acid
Alpha-ketomalonic acid
2-Oxopropanedioic acidIdentifiers CAS number 473-90-5 PubChem 10132 ChemSpider 9727 DrugBank DB03589 KEGG C00830 ChEBI CHEBI:30842 Jmol-3D images Image 1 - O=C(O)C(=O)C(=O)O
Properties Molecular formula C3H2O5 Molar mass 118.04 g mol−1 acid (verify) (what is:
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Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)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.[1] 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,[1] by warming caffuric acid with lead acetate solution,[1] or from glycerin diacetate and concentrated nitric acid in the cold. The product can be obtained also by oxidation of tartronic acid [2] or glycerol.[3] Since they are carried out in water, these procedures generally give the dihydroxy derivative.
See also
References
- ^ a b c Henry Enfield Roscoe (1888), A Treatise on Chemistry, volume 3, part2 Organic Chemistry, p. 161. D. Appleton and Co., New York.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
Categories:- Dicarboxylic acids
- Deliquescent substances
- Ketones
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