Phenol → Diphenyl carbonate

HRID 1489893Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1489893 reaction equation
[C:1]1([OH:7])[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][CH:2]=1.Cl[C:9]([O:11][C:12]1[CH:17]=[CH:16][CH:15]=[CH:14][CH:13]=1)=[O:10]>N#[Zr]>[C:9](=[O:10])([O:11][C:12]1[CH:17]=[CH:16][CH:15]=[CH:14][CH:13]=1)[O:7][C:1]1[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][CH:2]=1

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 996PhenolHCID 15891Phenyl chloroformate

Product 1

HCID 7597Diphenyl carbonate

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 94359Zirconium nitride (ZrN)Catalyst

Procedure

Example 1 was repeated with 14.1 g of a powdered zirconium nitride from H. C. Starck at 140° C. After 2 hours' reaction time, phenol conversion was 9.4%, wherein 2.2 g of phenyl chloroformate and 12.5 g of diphenyl carbonate were formed. Selectivity for carbonates was 92.4%.

Workup

  1. customat 140° C

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-30a3cd035a2c407badb52bb9f6bf5594
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1997_10
Patent number
US05679825

Reaction notes

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