Benzyl Chloride → 2-Benzyltoluene

HRID 846013

Reaction equation

HRID 846013 reaction equation
[CH2:1](Cl)[C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=1>C1(C)C=CC=CC=1>[CH2:1]([C:3]1[CH:4]=[CH:5][CH:6]=[CH:7][C:2]=1[CH3:1])[C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=1.[CH2:1]([C:3]1[C:2]([CH2:1][C:2]2[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=2)=[C:7]([CH3:1])[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=1)[C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=1

Participants

4

Reactant 1

HCID 7503Benzyl Chloride

Product 2

HCID 697382-BenzyltolueneHCID 3034397Methylbis(phenylmethyl)benzene

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 1140TolueneSolvent

Procedure

In the like manner as the example in the above reference, benzyl chloride and toluene were reacted in the presence of a catalyst of FeCl3 ; and benzyltoluene and dibenzyltoluene were obtained by distillation. These benzyltoluene and dibenzyltoluene in a weight ratio of 80:20 were mixed together. The contents of isomers of the benzyltoluene in the obtained mixture were o-isomer: 39.1 wt %, m-isomer: 5.4 wt % and p-isomer: 35.5 wt %, which were almost coincident with the analytical values of the above JARYLEC C-100 of o-isomer: 36.2 wt %, m-isomer: 5.9 wt % and p-isomer: 37.8 wt %.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-c55e4a3247e04bc9be651106a16733a4
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1992_08
Patent number
US05134761

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