Participants
| Role | Name | HCID | Charge |
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| Reactant | Hydrogen Peroxide | HCID 784 | — |
| Reactant | Toluene | HCID 1140 | — |
| Reactant | Methyl Isobutyl Ketone | HCID 7909 | — |
| Catalyst | Titanium | HCID 23963 | — |
| Solvent | Water | HCID 962 | — |
| Product | O-Cresol | HCID 335 | — |
| Product | M-Cresol | HCID 342 | — |
| Product | P-Cresol | HCID 2879 | — |
Reaction Steps
A 500-ml flask is charged with 150 mls toluene, 100 mls methylisobutyl ketone, 40 mls of water and 20 g of titanium silicalite. To this slurry there are added 25 mls of 36% H2O2 while maintaining the temperature to 90° C. There are obtained 8.5 g of para cresol, 1.2 g of meta cresol, 1.9 g of ortho cresol, with a yield relative to H2O2 of 21%. 100 mls of such a solution are distilled and 4.2 g of cresols are obtained, with the following distribution of the isomers: 73.2% of para cresol, 10.34% of the meta isomer and 16.46% of the ortho isomer.
Provenance & Evidence
| DOI | 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1 |
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| Patent number | US04396783 |
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| Source dataset | uspto-grants-1983_08 |
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| ORD ID | ord-f9b7ae9274d44556aced368a1e61a324 |
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| Source note | uspto-grants-1983_08 |
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