Water → Laurolactam

HRID 1805739Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1805739 reaction equation
[C:1]1(=[N:13]O)[CH2:12][CH2:11][CH2:10][CH2:9][CH2:8][CH2:7][CH2:6][CH2:5][CH2:4][CH2:3][CH2:2]1.[OH2:15]>>[C:1]1(=[O:15])[NH:13][CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH2:11][CH2:12]1

Participants

3

Reactant 2

HCID 962WaterHCID 136762Cyclododecanone, oxime

Product 1

HCID 13690Laurolactam

Procedure

For example, the reaction of cyclododecanone oxime can be worked up by adding water to the mixture, extracting the mixture with an organic solvent and evaporating the solvent to give laurolactam, which can be further separated and purified by, for example, distillation and/or crystallization.

Workup

  1. extractionextracting the mixture with an organic solvent
  2. customevaporating the solvent

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-3d61d93f647149b783ece1b783d921a3
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2013_01
Patent number
US08354527B2

Reaction notes

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