Eh, I really don't see hydrogen peroxide being "required" for Detonationology's point. That was the same basic mechanism as acid-catalyzed aldol
condensation or hemiacetal formation, just a different nucleophile.
That reaction diagram might have had different reactants, but it still shows how acids usually tend to protonate the carbonyl to facilitate the attack
of a nucleophile rather than incorporating into the final product. In this case we're looking at self-condensation where the enol form of acetone is
the nucleophile. |
