Sulfuric Acid → Octyl acrylate

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Reaction Steps

To 1.00 g (0.00891 mole, 1 eq) of 1-octene heated to 50° C. was added a solution of 0.706 g (0.00980 mole, 1.1 eq) of acrylic acid and 2.00 g of a 96 wt-% solution of sulfuric acid (18 M, 0.0196 mole, 2.2 eq). After 15 minutes at 70° C. all the olefin was consumed but only 30% of the product was the desired acrylate.

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