Sulfuric Acid → 6-Chlorohexanoic acid

Reaction equation

[C:1]([OH:8])(=[O:7])[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH3:6].S(=O)(=O)(O)O.[Cl:14]Cl>>[Cl:14][CH2:6][CH2:5][CH2:4][CH2:3][CH2:2][C:1]([OH:8])=[O:7]

Participants

Reactant 3

HCID 1118Sulfuric Acid

HCID 8892Hexanoic Acid

HCID 24526Chlorine

Product 1

HCID 202096-Chlorohexanoic acid

Procedure

155 parts by weight of the caproic acid were added to 1,000 parts by weight of 90% sulfuric acid saturated with chlorine and were reacted for 6 hours at 25° C. to obtain 100 parts by weight of 6-chlorocaproic acid.

Workup

customwere reacted for 6 hours at 25° C.

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-d5ab27fa635949a0b6fdb38c28347bef
Source dataset: uspto-grants-2003_05
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US06559275B2

Reaction notes

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