Peracetic Acid → 4-tert-Butylcatechol

HRID 1605627Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1605627 reaction equation
[C:1]([C:5]1[CH:10]=[CH:9][C:8]([OH:11])=[CH:7][CH:6]=1)([CH3:4])([CH3:3])[CH3:2].C(OO)(=[O:14])C.C(C1C=CC=CC=1O)CCC>C(OCC)(=O)C>[C:1]([C:5]1[CH:10]=[C:9]([OH:14])[C:8](=[CH:7][CH:6]=1)[OH:11])([CH3:4])([CH3:2])[CH3:3]

Participants

5

Reactant 3

HCID 6585Peracetic AcidHCID 73934-tert-ButylphenolHCID 185152-Butylphenol

Product 1

HCID 73814-tert-ButylcatecholYield 77%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 8857Ethyl AcetateSolvent

Procedure

After the manner of the procedure of Comparative Example 1, the reaction was carried out by using 20 ml of ethyl acetate as a solvent for para-tert.-butyl phenol and 0.5% by weight of Na5R'5 (P3O10)2 (R' = 2-ethylhexyl, tradename "Victor Wet 35B") as a peracetic acid stabilizer based on the amount of butyl phenol used. Consequently, the conversion of parta-tert.-butyl phenol was 7.2%, 4-tert.-butyl pyrocatechol was formed in a yield of 77% based on the converted butyl phenol and the conversion of peracetic acid was 98.5%.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-bf182fe8ef5b432ba40e76f8afc652a5
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1976_04
Patent number
US03950437

Reaction notes

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