Formaldehyde → Bis(2-hydroxyphenyl)methane

HRID 1608642Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1608642 reaction equation
[C:1]1([OH:7])[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][CH:2]=1.[CH2:8]=[O:9]>>[CH:1]1[CH:2]=[C:3]([CH2:4][C:6]2[C:1]([OH:7])=[CH:2][CH:3]=[CH:4][CH:5]=2)[C:8]([OH:9])=[CH:5][CH:6]=1

Participants

3

Reactant 2

HCID 712FormaldehydeHCID 996Phenol

Product 1

HCID 75575Bis(2-hydroxyphenyl)methane

Procedure

a preparation step comprising reacting phenol with formaldehyde in the presence of an acid catalyst and removing the acid catalyst, water and the unreacted phenol from the resulting reaction product to give a crude bisphenol F;

Workup

  1. customa preparation step comprising
  2. customremoving the acid catalyst, water
  3. customthe unreacted phenol from the resulting reaction product

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-c31b1e96d62943c296d16cefb281cd7f
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1995_03
Patent number
US05395915

Reaction notes

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