Acetic Acid → Biphenyl

HRID 542147Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 542147 reaction equation
[C:1](O)(=O)[CH3:2].C(O[C:9]1[CH:14]=[CH:13][CH:12]=[CH:11][CH:10]=1)(=O)C>>[C:9]1([C:1]2[CH:2]=[CH:11][CH:10]=[CH:9][CH:14]=2)[CH:10]=[CH:11][CH:12]=[CH:13][CH:14]=1

Participants

3

Reactant 2

HCID 176Acetic AcidHCID 31229Phenyl acetate

Product 1

HCID 7095Biphenyl

Procedure

The procedure of Example 4 was repeated except that 0.874 mol of acetic acid was used in place of the lauric acid. The reaction was carried out at about 85° C. for 3 hours. Analysis showed that only a trace amount of phenyl acetate formed and 8 millimols of biphenyl were formed.

Workup

  1. customformed

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-734f2b99698b4e79b3c9c06c8d08f883
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1987_04
Patent number
US04655974

Reaction notes

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