Water → Sodium Behenate

HRID 479915Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 479915 reaction equation
[C:1]([OH:24])(=[O:23])[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH2:11][CH2:12][CH2:13][CH2:14][CH2:15][CH2:16][CH2:17][CH2:18][CH2:19][CH2:20][CH2:21][CH3:22].O.[OH-].[Na+:27]>C(O)(C)(C)C>[C:1]([O-:24])(=[O:23])[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH2:11][CH2:12][CH2:13][CH2:14][CH2:15][CH2:16][CH2:17][CH2:18][CH2:19][CH2:20][CH2:21][CH3:22].[Na+:27]

Participants

5

Reactant 3

HCID 962WaterHCID 8215Docosanoic AcidHCID 14798Sodium Hydroxide

Product 1

HCID 23668838Sodium Behenate

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 6386tert-ButanolSolvent

Procedure

Behenic acid (87.6 kg) (manufactured by Henkel Co., trade name: Edenor C22-85R), 423 liters of distilled water, 49.2 liters of an aqueous solution of NaOH in concentration of 5 mol/liter, and 120 liters of tert-butanol were mixed, and the mixture was stirred to react for 1 hour at 75° C., thereby a sodium behenate solution was obtained.

Workup

  1. customto react for 1 hour at 75° C.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-00877b10701c45d1b9b95a8e3a16f1a2
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2003_11
Patent number
US06649337B2

Reaction notes

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