Phenol → Carbonic acid, methyl phenyl ester

HRID 1994209Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1994209 reaction equation
[C:1](=[O:6])([O:4][CH3:5])[O:2][CH3:3].[C:7]1(O)[CH:12]=[CH:11]C=[CH:9][CH:8]=1>>[C:1](=[O:6])([O:4][C:5]1[CH:11]=[CH:12][CH:7]=[CH:8][CH:9]=1)[O:2][CH3:3]

Participants

3

Reactant 2

HCID 996PhenolHCID 12021Dimethyl Carbonate

Product 1

HCID 139482Carbonic acid, methyl phenyl ester

Procedure

A transesterification reaction was performed between dimethyl carbonate and phenol to obtain methyl phenyl carbonate. The obtained methyl phenyl carbonate was subjected to a disproportionation reaction to obtain a diphenyl carbonate product containing about 90 ppm by weight of methyl phenyl carbonate.

Workup

  1. customA transesterification reaction

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-8634a00e2b1f42cbb15c6d3e07b280c7
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2010_01
Patent number
US07652122B2

Reaction notes

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