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furoin
Sign in to saveFuroin or 1,2-di(furan-2-yl)-2-hydroxyethanone is an organic compound with formula C10H8O4. It can be produced from furfural by a benzoin condensation reaction catalyzed by cyanide ions.
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- chemical compound
- Has part
- hydrogen
- Mass
- 192.042
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- chemical formula
- C₁₀H₈O₄
- melting point
- 138.0
- canonical SMILES
- C1=COC(=C1)C(C(=O)C2=CC=CO2)O
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Furoin or 1,2-di(furan-2-yl)-2-hydroxyethanone is an organic compound with formula C10H8O4. It can be produced from furfural by a benzoin condensation reaction catalyzed by cyanide ions.
==Reactions== Furoin synthesis from furfural is also catalyzed by vitamin B1 (thiamine). In 1957, Ronald Breslow proposed that this reaction involves a relatively stable carbene form of thiamine. In the catalytic cycle shown below two molecules of furfural react to give furoin, via a thiazol-2-ylidene catalyst, resulting from loss of one proton at carbon 2 of the thiazolium cation of vitamin B1:
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