Acetic Acid → Lauric Acid

HRID 1290336Notes

Reaction equation

[CH2:1]([C:12](C)=[O:13])[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH3:11].C(O)(=[O:17])C>>[C:12]([OH:13])(=[O:17])[CH2:1][CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH3:11]

Participants

Reactant 2

HCID 176Acetic Acid

HCID 116222-Tridecanone

Product 1

HCID 3893Lauric AcidYield 85%

Procedure

There is also reported, in Japanese Patent Application (Laid-Open) No. 175951/1989, a process for production of ketone from higher aliphatic carboxylic acid and lower aliphatic carboxylic acid using cerium oxide-on-alumina catalyst. According to the literature, methyl n-undecyl ketone, for example, is produced from lauric acid and acetic acid and the yield is 85%. In the process, however, GHSV (gas phase space velocity) is as low as 171 hr-1 ; consequently, the productivity is low and a large reactor is necessary, which are not advantageous industrially.

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-23f3e2bc3a20430ea8bcaf6eceeb01fa
Source dataset: uspto-grants-1998_05
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US05750795

Reaction notes

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