Water → HCID 86748987, compound

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Reaction Conditions

Reaction Steps

To a 300 ml reaction vessel equipped with a stirrer, thermometer and a condenser, 50 g of O,O'-di-p-toluoyl-L-tartaric anhydride and 150 g of water were supplied and the mixture was stirred at 90°-95° C. for 1 hour to carry out hydrolysis. After cooling the reaction mixture to 63° C., 5 g of toluene and 0.1 g of seed crystal of O,O'-di-p-toluoyl-L-tartaric acid were added and the mixture was slowly cooled. Since oily product began to crystalize at 61° C., the mixture was stirred for 1 hour at this temperature. After completion of crystallization, the reaction slurry was cooled to room temperature and the crystals were collected by filtration. The thus obtained cake was dried to obtain 52.7 g of O,O'-di-p-toluoyl-L-tartaric acid hydrate in the form of white crystals. The content of crystal water was measured by Karl Fischer method, which was 4.3% (yield: 96.2%). The crystals were sieved through a 20-mesh sieve and 98 wt % of the crystals passed through the sieve. The amount of the crystals which adhered to the wall or to the stirrer of the reaction apparatus so that which could not be removed from the reaction apparatus was 0.8 g which was 1.5 wt % of the total crystals produced.

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