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• Sigma-Aldrich - acetoin
  28.30 - 572.00 USD
• Fisher Scientific - Search for acetoin
• TCI - acetoin
  27.00 - 208.00 USD

Most-cited Publications

• A colorimetric determination of blood acetoin. (Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1945)
• Regulation of the Bacillus subtilis alsS, alsD, and alsR genes involved in post-exponential-phase production of acetoin. (Journal of Bacteriology, 1993)
• Acetoin Metabolism in Bacteria (Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 2007)
• Furfural, 5hydroxymethyl furfural, and acetoin act as external electron acceptors during anaerobic fermentation of xylose in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 2002)
• Determination of Organic Acids, Sugars, Diacetyl, and Acetoin in Cheese by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2001)
• Identification of genes involved in utilization of acetate and acetoin in Bacillus subtilis (Molecular Microbiology, 1993)

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Alternate Names

• Acetylmethylcarbinol
• 3H-2B butanone
• 3-hydroxy-2-butanone
• SMILES
  CC(C(=O)C)O
• InChIKey
  ROWKJAVDOGWPAT-UHFFFAOYSA-N

External Links

• Pubchem - acetoin
• Wikipedia - acetoin
  Acetoin, also known as 3-hydroxybutanone or acetyl methyl carbinol, with the molecular formula is C4H8O2, is a colorless or pale yellow to green yellow liquid with a pleasant, buttery odor. Acetoin is a chiral molecule. The form produced by bacteria is (R)-acetoin.

Synthesis

acetaldehyde  +  ACETYL CHLORIDE (Grignard alcohol)

2,3-butanediol  +  dimethyl sulfide (Corey-Kim oxidation of secondary alcohols)

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