Sulfuric Acid → Octyl acrylate

Reaction equation

[CH2:1]=[CH:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH3:8].[C:9]([OH:13])(=[O:12])[CH:10]=[CH2:11].S(=O)(=O)(O)O>>[C:9]([O:13][CH2:1][CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH3:8])(=[O:12])[CH:10]=[CH2:11]

Participants

Reactant 3

HCID 1118Sulfuric Acid

HCID 6581Acrylic Acid

HCID 81251-Octene

Product 1

HCID 17258Octyl acrylate

Procedure

To 1.00 g (0.00891 mole, 1 eq) of 1-octene heated to 50° C. was added a solution of 0.706 g (0.00980 mole, 1.1 eq) of acrylic acid and 2.00 g of a 96 wt-% solution of sulfuric acid (18 M, 0.0196 mole, 2.2 eq). After 15 minutes at 70° C. all the olefin was consumed but only 30% of the product was the desired acrylate.