LuckyWinner
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Make Methanol from Methyl Esters + NaOh ? (Base Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Esters)
The Methanol was made by an base catalysed ester hydrolysis of methyl-benzoate. The other product is benzoic acid.
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJMGzIQE4RM
Add to a Flask:
250ml water
40g Sodium Hydroxide (1mol Naoh)
Reflux, weight out 1 Mol of any Methyl-Ester and add it
slowly with additional funnel to the main flask.
Once reaction is finished, let cool and simple distill anything that boils under 100C
methanol boils at 64,7 °C.
Sodium Benzoate forms as byproduct, in main flask. is dissolved in water.
Question:
since any methyl ester can be used, why not use
Methyl acetate mol 74,08g/mol density 0,93g/cm3, 1 Liter = 930g and 12.55 mol
instead of
Methyl Benzoate, 136.15 g/mol, density: 1,08 g/cm³ 1 liter = 1080g and 7.93 mol
since 1 mol of any methyl ester will yield 1 mol of methanol,
using 1 unit of Methyl acetate
would give me almost 2x the yield and is cheaper to buy then
using 1 unit of Methyl Benzoate as seen in the video.
*byproduct of Methyl acetate would be Sodium acetate, instead of Sodium Benzoate.
did I make an error?
[Edited on 30-4-2020 by LuckyWinner]
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Bedlasky
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No. Methyl acetate should be easy to hydrolyze.
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LuckyWinner
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my calculation about almost 2x the yield by volume is also correct if using
Methyl acetate
instead of
Methyl Benzoate
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Texium
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It works, but why would you want to do this?
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LuckyWinner
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cause you can not get methanol anywhere here and its needed.
is there any other easier, higher yielding method out there to make methanol?
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