Diethyl malonate (BioDeep_00000018217)

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Diethyl malonate, also known as dicarbethoxymethane or ethyl propanedioate, belongs to the class of organic compounds known as dicarboxylic acids and derivatives. These are organic compounds containing exactly two carboxylic acid groups. Diethyl malonate is a sweet, apple, and fruity tasting compound. Diethyl malonate has been detected, but not quantified, in a few different foods, such as alcoholic beverages, evergreen blackberries, and fruits. Like other esters, this compound can undergo bromination at the alpha position. Fischer esterification gives diethyl malonate: One of the principal uses of this compound is in the malonic ester synthesis. It occurs naturally in grapes and strawberries as a colourless liquid with an apple-like odour, and is used in perfumes. Malonic acid is a rather simple dicarboxylic acid, with the two carboxyl groups close together. The hydrogen atoms on a carbon adjacent to two carbonyl groups are even more acidic because the carbonyl groups help stabilize the carbanion resulting from the removal of that proton. Like many other esters, this compound can undergo the Claisen ester condensation. This alkylated 1,3-dicarbonyl compound (3) readily undergoes decarboxylation with loss of carbon dioxide, to give a substituted acetic acid, using Sodium ethoxide as the preferred base. The use of aqueous sodium hydroxide may give the base hydrolysis products: sodium malonate and ethanol.
Diethyl malonate is a flavouring ingredient. It is a rather simple dicarboxylic acid, with two carboxyl groups close together in its molecule. In forming diethyl malonate from malonic acid, the hydroxyl group (-OH) on both of the carboxyl groups is replaced by an ethoxy group (-OEt; -OCH2CH3). The methylene group (-CH2-) in the middle of the malonic part of the diethyl malonate molecule is neighboured by two carbonyl groups (-C(=O)-). Diethyl malonate is found in alcoholic beverages such as wines, and in fruits such as guava, melon, concord grape, pineapple, blackberry.

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