Vinyl Acetate → 1,1-Ethanediol, 1,1-diacetate

HRID 1111247Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1111247 reaction equation
[I-].[Ca+2].[I-].[C:4]([O:7][CH:8]=[CH2:9])(=[O:6])[CH3:5]>C(O)(=O)C>[C:4]([O:7][CH:8]([O:7][C:4](=[O:6])[CH3:5])[CH3:9])(=[O:6])[CH3:5]

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 7904Vinyl AcetateHCID 5462722Calcium iodide

Product 1

HCID 2225361,1-Ethanediol, 1,1-diacetateYield 18,027.301%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 176Acetic AcidSolvent

Procedure

The procedure of Example 9 was repeated except that 10 g of calcium iodide was used in place of methyl iodide and the reaction was carried out for 6 hours. GC analysis showed that 0.083 g of vinyl acetate and 12.7 g of ethylidene diacetate were formed with considerable amount of acetic acid.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-7bfe52470f19433195203057c8837342
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1990_12
Patent number
US04978778

Reaction notes

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