Lactic Acid → Citric Acid

HRID 1252663Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1252663 reaction equation
[Cl-].[Ca+2].[Cl-].[C:4]([OH:9])(=[O:8])[CH:5]([CH3:7])[OH:6].[Cl-].[Na+].[OH2:12]>>[C:4]([OH:9])(=[O:8])[CH2:7][C:5]([CH2:7][C:5]([OH:6])=[O:12])([C:4]([OH:9])=[O:8])[OH:6]

Participants

4

Reactant 3

HCID 612Lactic AcidHCID 5284359Calcium ChlorideHCID 57417360Sodium chloride; water

Product 1

HCID 311Citric Acid

Procedure

The colouring agent and the flavouring agent were the same as in Example I. The mixture was treated in the same manner but the brine solution was now containing only 80 g of common salt besides 8 g of calcium chloride and having a pH-value which was adjusted at 5.0 by means of lactic acid.

Workup

  1. additionThe mixture was treated in the same manner

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-b78df3c1ceff4e43a2538d2ddb7a8698
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1988_05
Patent number
US04744998

Reaction notes

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