Ethylene Oxide → 2-[Ethyl(octyl)amino]ethanol

HRID 614306Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 614306 reaction equation
[CH2:1]([NH:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH3:11])[CH3:2].[CH2:12]1[O:14][CH2:13]1>C(O)C>[CH2:1]([N:3]([CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH3:11])[CH2:12][CH2:13][OH:14])[CH3:2]

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 6354Ethylene OxideHCID 12546489N-Ethyloctylamine

Product 1

HCID 213290142-[Ethyl(octyl)amino]ethanolYield 80.6%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 702EthanolSolvent

Procedure

A mixture of 15.7 g of ethyl-n-octylamine, 5 g of ethyleneoxide and 100 ml of 96% ethanol was held at 100° C. for one hour in a steel autoclave. The reaction mixture was distilled and gave 16.2 g of N-ethyl-N-n-octyl-ethanolamine, b.p. 85°-87° C./0.2 mm Hg, nD22 = 1.4490.

Workup

  1. distillationThe reaction mixture was distilled

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-6188cb2bf1064d5b9dab32c86139258b
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1979_03
Patent number
US04144320

Reaction notes

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