Ethanol → Ethylene carbonate

HRID 1660093Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1660093 reaction equation
[CH2:1]([OH:3])[CH3:2].[CH2:4]1[O:9][C:7](=[O:8])[O:6][CH2:5]1.[OH-].[Tl+]>>[CH2:4]1[O:9][C:7](=[O:8])[O:6][CH2:5]1.[C:7](=[O:8])([O:6][CH2:5][CH3:4])[O:3][CH2:1][CH3:2]

Participants

5

Reactant 3

HCID 702EthanolHCID 7303Ethylene carbonateHCID 160963Thallium hydroxide

Product 2

HCID 7303Ethylene carbonateHCID 7766Diethyl Carbonate

Procedure

A mixture of 640 g (21.5 mols) of ethanol, 264 g (3.0 mols) of glycol carbonate and 0.1 g of thallium hydroxide is kept at 150° for 2 hours and worked up as in Example 1. A conversion of glycol carbonate to diethyl carbonate of 58% is obtained. The distillation residue is 0.11 g, which corresponds to the amount of catalyst employed; diglycol and triglycol cannot be detected in the distillate.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-9cc6675272544c429f10602587d8c9d5
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1981_12
Patent number
US04307032

Reaction notes

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