1-Octanol → Octyl Acetate

HRID 928627Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 928627 reaction equation
[CH2:1]([OH:9])[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH3:8].[C:10](OC(=O)C)(=[O:12])[CH3:11]>>[C:10]([O:9][CH2:1][CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH3:8])(=[O:12])[CH3:11]

Participants

3

Reactant 2

HCID 9571-OctanolHCID 7918Acetic Anhydride

Product 1

HCID 8164Octyl Acetate

Conditions

Temperature
16 °C

Procedure

A mixture of 1-octanol (40 mL, 252 mmol), acetic anhydride (26 mL, 278 mmol) and compound from Example 1 (0.6 g, 1 wt %) was stirred at 16° C. for 2 h. The solution was filtered and excess acetic anhydride removed by distillation to give 1-octyl acetate as the only product.

Workup

  1. filtrationThe solution was filtered
  2. customexcess acetic anhydride removed by distillation

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-73a4a62e2ab640adadcea532a588b965
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2016_03
Patent number
US09290522B2

Reaction notes

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