Octanoic Acid → Octanoyl chloride

HRID 43302

Reaction equation

HRID 43302 reaction equation
[C:1]([OH:10])(=O)[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH3:8].S(Cl)([Cl:13])=O>>[C:1]([Cl:13])(=[O:10])[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH3:8]

Participants

3

Reactant 2

HCID 379Octanoic AcidHCID 24386Thionyl Chloride

Product 1

HCID 8124Octanoyl chloride

Conditions

Temperature
40 °C

Procedure

144.2 g of Octanoic Acid is charged at room temperature and heated to 40° C., then 154.64 g of Thionyl Chloride is added over a period of 1 hour and the reaction mixture is heated to reflux at 110° C. for 1½ hour to obtain crude Octanoyl Chloride.

Workup

  1. temperaturethe reaction mixture is heated
  2. temperatureto reflux at 110° C. for 1½ hour

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-a167b60b59f440498a8198b5d77db73e
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2013_09
Patent number
US08536355B2

Linked notes

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