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Ethanol → Methyl Acetate
Participants
| Role | Name | HCID | Charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reactant | Ethanol | HCID 702 | — |
| Reactant | Methanol | HCID 887 | — |
| Reactant | 1-Propanol | HCID 1031 | — |
| Reactant | Ethyl Acetate | HCID 8857 | — |
| Catalyst | Dicobalt Octacarbonyl (stabilized with 1-5% Hexane) | HCID 25049 | — |
| Solvent | 1-Butanol | HCID 263 | — |
| Product | Methane | HCID 297 | 8.5% |
| Product | Methyl Acetate | HCID 6584 | 9% |
| Product | Methyl formate | HCID 7865 | 2% |
| Product | Propyl Acetate | HCID 7997 | 0.1% |
Reaction Steps
Thus in a paper published in Science 113, 206 (1951) Wender, Friedel and Orchin reported that methanol was reacted with synthesis gas (1H2 :1CO) in the presence of dicobalt octacarbonyl as catalyst to produce methyl formate (2%), methyl acetate (9.0%), ethyl alcohol (38.8%), ethyl acetate (6.3%), propyl alcohol (4.7%), butyl alcohol (0.9%), methane (8.5%), propyl acetate (0.1%) and a small amount of unidentified product, the total conversion of methanol being 76.4%.
Provenance & Evidence
| DOI | 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1 |
|---|---|
| Patent number | US04380681 |
| Source dataset | uspto-grants-1983_04 |
| ORD ID | ord-2228d031bd5242c4919e3986dfcec4b9 |
| Source note | uspto-grants-1983_04 |