Toluene → 1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene

HRID 1248394Notes

Reaction equation

[C:1]1([CH3:8])[C:2]([CH3:7])=[CH:3][CH:4]=[CH:5][CH:6]=1.[C:9]1(C)C=CC=CC=1>>[CH3:8][C:1]1[CH:6]=[CH:5][C:4]([CH3:9])=[CH:3][C:2]=1[CH3:7]

Participants

Reactant 2

HCID 1140Toluene

HCID 7237O-Xylene

Product 1

HCID 72471,2,4-Trimethylbenzene

Procedure

In this example, transalkylation was carried out for obtaining xylene from toluene and 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene using the zeolite C-1 of this invention (silica/alumina mole ratio=39.2) and the zeolite A as a comparison (silica/alumina mole ratio=32.8).

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-dd8927004ed041879613d83aaf883af9
Source dataset: uspto-grants-1985_06
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US04524055

Reaction notes

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