Potassium Hydroxide → Benzoic acid, 3,5-bis(dodecyloxy)-

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Methyl 3,5-bis-dodecyloxybenzoate (8 g) was refluxed for 6 h with EtOH (25 mL) and 10% KOH. Then, the mixture was cooled and poured onto ice H2O and extracted with MC, then the organic layer was stored over dry MgSO4. The solvent was removed; the crude was recrystallized in EtOH to yield 85% of the benzoic acid product as a white solid. 1H-NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3) δ 7.1 (d, 2H), 6.6 (t, 1H), 4.0 (t, 4H), 1.7-1.8 (m, 4H), 1.4-1.6 (m, 4H), 1.2-1.3 (m, 32H), 0.9 (t, 6H).

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