Toluene → 2-Methylbenzophenone

HRID 488179

Reaction equation

[C:1](Cl)(=[O:8])[C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=1.[C:10]1([CH3:16])[CH:15]=[CH:14][CH:13]=[CH:12][CH:11]=1>>[CH3:16][C:10]1[CH:15]=[CH:14][CH:13]=[CH:12][C:11]=1[C:1]([C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=1)=[O:8]

Participants

Reactant 2

HCID 1140Toluene

HCID 7412Benzoyl chloride

Product 1

HCID 672302-Methylbenzophenone

Procedure

Methylbenzophenone was prepared from mixtures of toluene and benzoyl chloride using essentially the method described in Example 1, with the following modifications in the distillation scheme.

Workup

distillationdescribed in Example 1, with the following modifications in the distillation scheme

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-3b2ba64d9ab54e08b33de6509e8af149
Source dataset: uspto-grants-1994_03
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US05298664

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