Phenol → Diphenyl carbonate

HRID 2260842Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 2260842 reaction equation
[C:1]1([OH:7])[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][CH:2]=1.Cl[C:9]([O:11][C:12]1[CH:17]=[CH:16][CH:15]=[CH:14][CH:13]=1)=[O:10]>>[C:9](=[O:10])([O:11][C:12]1[CH:17]=[CH:16][CH:15]=[CH:14][CH:13]=1)[O:7][C:1]1[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][CH:2]=1

Participants

3

Reactant 2

HCID 996PhenolHCID 15891Phenyl chloroformate

Product 1

HCID 7597Diphenyl carbonate

Procedure

Example 1 was repeated using 14.1 g of powdered H-Y at 160° C. After 2 h reaction time the phenol conversion was 11.0%, wherein<0.1 g of phenyl chloroformate and 17.5 g of diphenyl carbonate were formed. The selectivity to give the carbonate was ca. 99%.

Workup

  1. customat 160° C

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-1fd58ebe2b704383bdf86a50db6b273d
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1995_12
Patent number
US05478961

Reaction notes

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