Palmitic Acid → Methyl Palmitate

HRID 2175480Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 2175480 reaction equation
S1C=CC=[C:2]1S(O)(=O)=O.[C:10]([OH:27])(=[O:26])[CH2:11][CH2:12][CH2:13][CH2:14][CH2:15][CH2:16][CH2:17][CH2:18][CH2:19][CH2:20][CH2:21][CH2:22][CH2:23][CH2:24][CH3:25]>CO>[CH3:2][O:26][C:10](=[O:27])[CH2:11][CH2:12][CH2:13][CH2:14][CH2:15][CH2:16][CH2:17][CH2:18][CH2:19][CH2:20][CH2:21][CH2:22][CH2:23][CH2:24][CH3:25]

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 985Palmitic AcidHCID 165170thiophene-2-sulfonic acid

Product 1

HCID 8181Methyl Palmitate

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 887MethanolSolvent

Procedure

The thienylsulfonic acid-functionalized SBA-15 (15ThioSO3H-SBA-15-p) was used as the solid acid catalyst in the liquid phase esterification of palmitic acid (PA) with methanol (MeOH) to form methylpalmitate. The reaction was carried out at the reflux temperature of MeOH.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-75c9ad0b6f614e7da155d19778ae5f66
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2015_06
Patent number
US09062081B1

Reaction notes

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