The first reported chemical syntheses of HMB were: the oxidation of 2-methylpent-4-en-2-ol with chromic acid (H2CrO4) in 1877 by the Russian chemists Michael and Alexander Zaytsev;[1] the oxidative cleavage of 4-methylpentane-1,2,4-triol with potassium permanganate (KMnO4) in 1880 and 1889 by Schirokoff and Reformatsky, respectively;[2][3] and, the oxidation with permanganate of 3-methylbutane-1,3-diol in 1892 by Kondakow.[4]
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↑The earliest citation for the synthesis of β-hydroxy β-methylbutyric acid in the Reaxys chemical database as of September 2016 is: (1877). "Synthese des Allyldimethylcarbinols". Justus Liebig's Annalen der Chemie185 (2–3): 151–169. DOI:10.1002/jlac.18771850204.
↑ (January 1881). "Ueber die β-Dipropyl- und β-Diäthyläthylenmilchsäure und über die Oxydation des Allyldimethylcarbinols und Diallylcarbinols mit übermangansaurem Kalium". Journal für Praktische Chemie23 (1): 196–208. DOI:10.1002/prac.18810230115.
↑ (30 October 1889). "Synthese einiger Glycerine mittelst unterchloriger Säure". Journal für Praktische Chemie40 (1): 396–419. DOI:10.1002/prac.18890400137.
↑ (1892). "On the action of mineral acids on dimethylallyls". Zhurnal Russkago Fiziko-Khimicheskago Obshchestva (Journal of the Russian Physico-Chemical Society)1: 508–513. abstracted by Grosset (1893). "Ueber die Einwirkung von Mineralsauren auk Dimethylallen". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft26 (4): 96. DOI:10.1002/cber.18930260412.
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