Tridecanoic acid → Tridecanoyl chloride

HRID 345873

Reaction equation

HRID 345873 reaction equation
[C:1]([OH:15])(=O)[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH2:11][CH2:12][CH3:13].S(Cl)([Cl:18])=O>C1C=CC=CC=1>[C:1]([Cl:18])(=[O:15])[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH2:11][CH2:12][CH3:13]

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 12530Tridecanoic acidHCID 24386Thionyl Chloride

Product 1

HCID 87288Tridecanoyl chloride

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 241BenzeneSolvent

Procedure

To a benzene solution containing 5.0 g (0.023 mol) of tridecanoic acid was added 25 g of thionyl chloride, followed by refluxing for 5 hours. The excess of thionyl chloride and benzene were removed by distillation to obtain tridecanoyl chloride.

Workup

  1. temperatureby refluxing for 5 hours
  2. customThe excess of thionyl chloride and benzene were removed by distillation

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-b6fd7f8ab8d244baa08dccc98c1036ee
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1991_10
Patent number
US05059628

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