Methanol → O-Cresol

HRID 1758109Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1758109 reaction equation
[C:1]1([O:7][CH3:8])[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][CH:2]=1.[CH3:9]O>>[C:6]1([CH3:9])[C:1]([OH:7])=[CH:2][CH:3]=[CH:4][CH:5]=1.[CH3:9][C:2]1[CH:3]=[CH:4][CH:5]=[CH:6][C:1]=1[O:7][CH3:8]

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 887MethanolHCID 7519Anisole

Product 2

HCID 335O-CresolHCID 336372-Methylanisole

Procedure

A sample of HZSM-5, having a silica to alumina mole ratio of 130, was steamed for 2 hours at 800° C. When a mixture of anisole and methanol (mole ratio=2:1) was subsequently passed over the catalyst at 350° C. and a feed WHSV of 1.8 hr-1, an ortho-rich cresol fraction (66% ortho) and a para-rich methylanisole fraction (65% para) were produced. The results are summarized in TABLE II.

Workup

  1. customwas subsequently passed over the catalyst at 350° C.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-a2946e59c6c94090a90ac7ea69da0176
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1983_02
Patent number
US04371714

Reaction notes

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