Oxalic Acid → HCID 86754097, compound

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Oxalic acid in an amount of 21.56 g (0.239 mol) was dissolved in acetone, making a total of 100 g. The resultant solution was mixed with 100 g of 40% by weight solution of benzyltrimethylammonium hydroxide (0.261 mol) in methanol (produced by Tokyo Kasei Kogyo Co., Ltd.), and then 1500 g of acetone was added to the resultant mixture to form white precipitate. Subsequently, the precipitate was collected by means of suction filtration method, dispersed in 500 g of acetone and filtered to collect cake. The resultant cake was subjected to drying treatment under vacuum at 80° C. for 24 hours to form 46.80 g (0.208 mol) of mono(benzyltrimethylammonium) oxalate at a yield of 87.0% based on the fed oxalic acid. The resultant mono(benzyltrimethylammonium) oxalate, which had a melting point of about 130° C. in a stream of nitrogen, was thermally decomposed in a stream of nitrogen at about 230° C. with a latent heat of fusion of about 123 J/g.

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