Nitric oxide reacts with methoxide

F DeRosa, LK Keefer, JA Hrabie

Index: DeRosa, Frank; Keefer, Larry K.; Hrabie, Joseph A. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2008 , vol. 73, # 3 p. 1139 - 1142

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Abstract

Despite over a century of reports to the contrary, sodium methoxide has been found to react with nitric oxide (NO). The reaction, whose final organic product is sodium formate, is postulated to occur via an intermediate O-bound diazeniumdiolate [CH3O-N (O) NO-] that decomposes to formaldehyde and nitrous oxide. Sodium formate forms from the aldehyde via a Cannizzaro reaction. Carboxylate salts have similarly been obtained by exposing ...