P-Toluic Acid → 4-Methylbenzaldehyde

HRID 1576586Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1576586 reaction equation
[CH3:1][C:2]1[CH:3]=[CH:4][C:5]([C:8](O)=[O:9])=[CH:6][CH:7]=1>CO>[C:2]1([CH3:1])[CH:7]=[CH:6][C:5]([CH:8]=[O:9])=[CH:4][CH:3]=1

Participants

3

Reactant 1

HCID 7470P-Toluic Acid

Product 1

HCID 77254-Methylbenzaldehyde

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 887MethanolSolvent

Procedure

Esterification of methanol is carried out with 100 g of per-p-toluic acid crystals obtained by distilling off acetone from the per-p-toluic acid product solution, obtained by autooxidizing p-tolualdehyde with air in the absence of catalyst in acetone as a solvent.

Workup

  1. customobtained
  2. distillationby distilling off acetone from the per-p-toluic acid product solution

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-0cf10c9c17ef4da28785865c001287d3
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1976_09
Patent number
US03981909

Reaction notes

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