3-Pentanone is a 3-alkanone.
[1] It undergoes deprotonation on reaction with lithium diisopropylamide (LDA) in THF (solvent) to afford
E enolate while the same reaction in THF/HMPT (HMPT = hexamethylphosphoric triamide, THF = tetrahydrofuran) solvent system affords
Z enolate.
[2] It is widely used as a tracer for planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) studies.
[3] Its electron-diffraction patterns
[4] and fluorescence quantum yields
[5] have been evaluated.
3-Pentanone is a diethyl ketone, which can be obtained as a major product of the condensation of propanol over ceria-zirconia mixed oxides catalyst, Ce
xZr
1-xO
2.