Participants
| Role | Name | HCID | Charge |
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| Reactant | Formaldehyde | HCID 712 | — |
| Reactant | Caprolactam | HCID 7768 | — |
| Reactant | Potassium Carbonate | HCID 11430 | — |
| Reactant | 2H-Azepin-2-one, hexahydro-1-(hydroxymethyl)- | HCID 83127 | — |
| Product | HCID 21293847 | HCID 21293847 | — |
Reaction Steps
1,130 g (10.00 mol) of 6-caprolactam, 306.1 g (10.00 mol) of 98% purity paraformaldehyde and 6.91 g (0.05 mol) of ground K2CO3 were brought to reaction. Apart from the catalyst, a clear solution was present. After 2 hours, the mixture was cooled to 50° C.; a few grains of pure N-methylol-caprolactam were added as seed crystals. 1,428 g of methylolcaprolactam (=99.9% of the theoretical yield) were obtained.
Provenance & Evidence
| DOI | 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1 |
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| Patent number | US04769454 |
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| Source dataset | uspto-grants-1988_09 |
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| ORD ID | ord-2e68a12907284739970f23999b270536 |
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| Source note | uspto-grants-1988_09 |
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