Benzyl Alcohol → 1-Phenylethanol

HRID 1703062Notes

Reaction equation

[CH2:1]=[CH:2][C:3]1[CH:8]=[CH:7][CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=1.C1(CC(O)=[O:17])C=CC=CC=1.C(OCC1C=CC=CC=1)(=O)C.C(O)C1C=CC=CC=1>>[CH3:1][CH:2]([OH:17])[C:3]1[CH:8]=[CH:7][CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=1

Participants

Reactant 4

HCID 244Benzyl Alcohol

HCID 999Phenylacetic Acid

HCID 7501Styrene

HCID 8785Benzyl acetate

Product 1

HCID 74091-Phenylethanol

Procedure

As the third major step toward the formation of styrene, phenylacetic acid synthesized from benzyl acetate, benzyl aldehyde and/or benzyl alcohol is then hydrogenated in the liquid phase to form phenyl ethanol as follows:

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-f69782ebc3674cceaf55d300848070ca
Source dataset: uspto-grants-1982_09
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US04350825

Reaction notes

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