Toluene → 1-Ethyl-4-Methylbenzene

HRID 1680608Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1680608 reaction equation
[C:1]1([CH3:7])[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][CH:2]=1.[CH2:8]=[CH2:9]>C(C1C=CC=CC=1C)C>[CH2:8]([C:4]1[CH:5]=[CH:6][C:1]([CH3:7])=[CH:2][CH:3]=1)[CH3:9]

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 1140Toluene4×HCID 6325Ethylene2×

Product 1

HCID 121601-Ethyl-4-Methylbenzene

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 119031-Ethyl-2-MethylbenzeneSolvent

Procedure

Ethylation of toluene was accomplished by passing a feed stream of ethylene and toluene over the catalyst (WHSV of toluene was 7 and that of ethylene was 0.5) at 400° C. The conversion of toluene was 20.3% and the yield of para-ethyltoluene in the total ethyltoluene produced was 86.4%.

Workup

  1. customat 400° C

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-835bfac067a5411d95410353d8bba3c9
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1981_06
Patent number
US04274982

Reaction notes

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