Hydrochloric Acid → Acetylphenylstearic acid

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Reaction Steps

A 500 ml reaction vessel was charged with 200 mls freshly distilled carbon tetrachloride and the CCl4 was cooled to 0°-5° C. Aluminum chloride (0.33 moles) was added, via Gooch tubing, to the CCl4 over a period of 20 minutes. Acetyl chloride (0.35 mol) was added to an addition funnel and charged to the CCl4 -AlCl3 mixture. Phenylstearic acid (0.125 moles) was then slowly added to the reaction mixture from an addition funnel while maintaining the temperature of the reaction mixture at 0°-5° C. The temperature was maintained at 0°-5° C. for one hour and at room temperature for an additional two hours. The evolution of HCl was observed.

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