Magnesium oxide is a mild basic reagent used in acylations, alkylations, oxidations, reductions, formation of heterocycles, ring-opening of tertiary amines, nitration of aromatic acetals, hydrohalogenation, dehydrohalogenation, carbonylation of organomercurials, and serves as a leaving group to form alkenes.
Application
Magnesium oxide can be used as a catalyst in the:
Dehydrogenation of n-octane to synthesize octenes.
Solvent-free Knoevenagel condensation of aromatic aldehydes and ethyl cyanoacetate to synthesize electrophilic olefins.
Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 14(44), 15593-15605 (2012-10-19)
Atomic scale characterization of the structure and dynamics of confined water molecules located near the metal oxide-aqueous interface is carried out using molecular dynamics simulations. Proximity effects on water molecules (H(2)O) near a magnesium oxide surface (MgO(100)) at room temperature
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