2,6-Naphthalenedicarboxylic acid → 2,6-Dimethylnaphthalene

HRID 1657230Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1657230 reaction equation
[CH:1]1[C:10]2[C:5](=[CH:6][C:7]([C:11](O)=O)=[CH:8][CH:9]=2)[CH:4]=[CH:3][C:2]=1[C:14](O)=O>C(O)(=O)C.O>[CH3:11][C:7]1[CH:8]=[CH:9][C:10]2[C:5](=[CH:4][CH:3]=[C:2]([CH3:14])[CH:1]=2)[CH:6]=1

Participants

3

Reactant 1

HCID 143572,6-Naphthalenedicarboxylic acid

Product 1

HCID 113872,6-Dimethylnaphthalene

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 21899381Acetic acid--water (1/1)Solvent

Procedure

The crude 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid used for the following Examples was obtained by the liquid phase, air oxidation of 2,6-dimethylnaphthalene in acetic acid/water solvent catalyzed by cobalt II acetate, manganese II acetate and hydrogen bromide as the promoter.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-9f7edbd74a3a48b8a15dc04a5fc8ad27
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1993_10
Patent number
US05256817

Reaction notes

Loading…