Methanol → 4-Methylbenzaldehyde

HRID 596240Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 596240 reaction equation
CO.[CH3:3][C:4]1[CH:5]=[CH:6][C:7]([C:10](O)=[O:11])=[CH:8][CH:9]=1>CC(C)=O>[C:4]1([CH3:3])[CH:9]=[CH:8][C:7]([CH:10]=[O:11])=[CH:6][CH:5]=1

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 887MethanolHCID 7470P-Toluic Acid2×

Product 1

HCID 77254-Methylbenzaldehyde

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 180AcetoneSolvent

Procedure

Esterification of methanol is carried out with the per-p-toluic acid product solution containing 30.0 % by weight of per-p-toluic acid, obtained by autooxidizing p-tolualdehyde with air in the absence of catalyst in acetone as a solvent.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-0f88bb1b2cb84e41b0456e7678ee0262
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1977_03
Patent number
US04010195

Reaction notes

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