P-Toluic Acid → 4-Methylbenzaldehyde

HRID 596239Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 596239 reaction equation
[CH3:1][C:2]1[CH:3]=[CH:4][C:5]([C:8](O)=[O:9])=[CH:6][CH:7]=1>CO>[C:2]1([CH3:1])[CH:7]=[CH:6][C:5]([CH:8]=[O:9])=[CH:4][CH:3]=1

Participants

3

Reactant 1

HCID 7470P-Toluic Acid

Product 1

HCID 77254-Methylbenzaldehyde

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 887MethanolSolvent

Procedure

Esterification of methanol is carried out with 100 g of per-p-toluic acid crystals obtained by distilling off acetone from the per-p-toluic acid product solution, obtained by autooxidizing p-tolualdehyde with air in the absence of catalyst in acetone as a solvent.

Workup

  1. customobtained
  2. distillationby distilling off acetone from the per-p-toluic acid product solution

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-9a47a3fa53334108b4b4fe57d20ffd0c
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1977_03
Patent number
US04010195

Reaction notes

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