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Potassium tert-butoxide is the chemical compound with the formula K+(CH3)3CO−. This colourless solid is a strong base (pKa of conjugate acid around 17), which is useful in organic synthesis. It exists as a tetrameric cubane-type cluster. It is often seen written in chemical literature as potassium t-butoxide. The compound is often depicted as a salt, and it often behaves as such, but it is not ionized in solution.
Potassium tert-butoxide Applications
The tert-butoxide species is itself useful as a strong, non-nucleophilic base in organic chemistry. It is not as strong as amide bases, e.g. lithium diisopropylamide, but stronger than potassium hydroxide. Its steric bulk inhibits the group from participating in nucleophilic addition, such as in a Williamson ether synthesis or an SN2 reaction. Substrates that are deprotonated by potassium t-butoxide include terminal acetylenes and active methylene compounds. It is useful in dehydrohalogenation reactions.
Potassium tert-butoxide catalyzes the reaction of hydrosilanes and heterocyclic compounds to give the silyl derivatives, with the release of H2.
(Potassium tert-butoxide) Usage
Potassium tert-butoxide is an important organic base with a base greater than potassium hydroxide. Due to the inductive effect of (CH3)3CO-three methyl groups, it is more alkaline and active than other potassium alkoxides and is, therefore, a good catalyst.
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