Ammonia → 2,5-Dicarbamoylbenzoic acid

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A solution of 21.1 g (0.10 mol) of trimellitoyl chloride in 25 ml of acetone was dropped into 200 ml of 29% aqueous ammonia, while the aqueous ammonia was stirred under cooling with ice. The resulting mixture was as such stirred for one hour, deaerated in a vacuum and acidified with concentrated hydrochloric acid under cooling with ice. The crystals thus precipitated were recovered by filtration, washed with water and dried with hot air to give 18.5 g of a mixture of 2,4-dicarbamoylbenzoic acid and 2,5-dicarbamoylbenzoic acid as a white crystal (yield: 89%).

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