M-Cresol → Methylhydroquinone

HRID 1605624Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1605624 reaction equation
[CH:1]1[C:6]([OH:7])=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][C:2]=1[CH3:8].[C:9]([O:12]O)(=[O:11])[CH3:10]>>[CH3:8][C:2]1[C:1]([OH:11])=[C:6]([OH:7])[CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=1.[CH3:8][C:2]1[CH:3]=[CH:10][C:9]([OH:12])=[C:6]([OH:7])[CH:1]=1.[CH3:8][C:2]1[CH:1]=[C:6]([OH:7])[CH:5]=[CH:4][C:3]=1[OH:11]

Participants

5

Reactant 2

HCID 342M-CresolHCID 6585Peracetic Acid

Product 3

HCID 3403-MethylcatecholYield 10.3%HCID 7253MethylhydroquinoneYield 25.9%HCID 99584-MethylcatecholYield 23%

Procedure

By repeating the procedure of Example 5, meta-cresol was subjected to reaction under the same conditions, except perisobutyric acid was used in place of peracetic acid. Consequently, the conversion of perisobutyric acid was 99.9% and there were obtained 10.3% of 3-methyl-1,2-dihydroxy benzene, 23.0% of 4-methyl-1,2-dihydroxy benzene and 25.9% of 3-metyl-1,4-dihydroxy benzene.

Workup

  1. customwas subjected to reaction under the same conditions, except perisobutyric acid

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-423b4c4f76724d718d5492c774de2faa
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1976_04
Patent number
US03950437

Reaction notes

Loading…