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Acetic anhydride, the 2nd.
I suggest trying a comparatively easy method to produce a mix of acetic anhydride and acetic acid:
For this method, i dared to presume that considerable amounts of acetic anhydride may be formed when mixing oleum(60% oleum, for instance) with
glacial acetic acid.
Mix a big excess of fuming sulfuric acid with glacial acetic acid.
A mixture of acetic anhydride and acetic acid/oleum results.
I would then propose distilling off the rests of SO3 at moderate temperature(can be recycled by dissolving in conc. H2SO4), followed by distilling off
as much of the lower boiling acetic acid as possible and then the last fraction should yield an azeotropic mix of acetic anhydride and acetic acid,
which is far from being pure acetic anhydride i presume, but i´m sure it could be used in most nitrations where acetic acid is added to the anhydride
anyway.
Also, considering acetic anhydride has a MP of
-73°C and acetic acid +17°C, a good effect of seperation may be achieved by freezing out acetic acid...
(BP acetic anhydride: 139°C; acetic acid: 118°C; BP SO3: 45°C; BP H2SO4: 338°C)
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Bubbling SO3 in the GAA will be better. SO3 by boiling oleum and venting the fumes into the GAA.
There was another way to produce SO3 as oleum is not my all day acid, - have to look it up.
A usual laboratory device in former days was the "ketenelamp" for thermal decomposition of acetone to yield ketene which gives acetic
anhydride if vented in GAA.
Enough on this dangerous industrial process, back to oleum and SO3 (H2S?).
I for my part would prefer making cyanides by Polverones way a thousand times before using oleum/SO3. But thats probably depending on personal taste
and style.
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Yeah, you probably mean the pyrolysis of sodium hydrogensulfate, cause this what i´ve also thought of.
I am aware of all these known methods using acetylchloride+sodium acetate, and the ketene-process, for instance, but the two are nasty.
One is made using a controlled substance(PCl3), if not a controlled substance itself, the other is with a gas of a toxicity in the magnitude of
phosgene.
The third method i can immediately remember would be using P2O5 for dehydration, which is obviously also ridiculously insuitable for the hobby
chemist.
Another attempt:
The Beilstein-Database spit out the following interesting reaction:
Pb(CH3COO)2 +CS2 ---> (165°C) acetic anhydride
I´m only wondering if this is a process to be performed at atmosperic pressure.
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No, I actually spoke of:
ketene prepararion - Org.Synt.
You may also look in Vogels 3rd edition for this where procedure and apparatus is described in detail.
For those who prefer tubes over sophisticated glassware as I following patents are interesting:
US1723724 to Kodak
US2080562 coke and carbon tubes
US2108829 with excellent drawings
GB425973 the best adaptable in my eyes
US1602699 with a preventive catalyst
DE468402 sulphate preventive catalysts
Attached is a small DJVU file - it is russian but contains a very good drawing of a ketene lamp as used in laboratories for long times.
To get the idea and for further inspiration.
If you want more as small amounts ketene/acetic anhydride the lamp or tube is the way to go. About a liter overnight is told to be no problem with a
device as described in Vogels 3rd.
 
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Good info on the ketene process, dude.
I´m still worrying about the toxicity of ketene(same as phosgene), so i am hesitating at trying the ketene method.
Well, i plan to do this outside anyways, but i have lots of neighbours(which i have no war with, at the moment), so this is is another reason...
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Do it inside with an aspirator and two washbottles, one with acetic acid one with water. The aspirator has to produce only enough underpressure for a
directed flow through the whole apparatus.
This way leaks and unhealthy ketene won´t bother you, also the methane is washed away.
As there are no corrosive chemicals involved and clogging is no problem use metal to build. This makes it easy to prevent leaks and you don´t have to
fear shattering.
If you are advanced in working with glass this is not important to you, is understood. The old chemists made everything from glass because the all
were glassblowers too. They had to be.
The trick is in the rapid cooling after the hot zone from >700°C to <600°C, so if a metaltube is used a thermal insulating piece of ceramics
(furnace cement with silicates) or else is necessary to divide hot and cooling part.
glad if I could help so
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I'm guessing that what would happen with a SO<sub>3</sub>/acetic acid heating process would be that it would yield lots ketene gas
from dehydration. H<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>/acetic certainly seemed to do that (see the old acetic anhydride thread).
I weep at the sight of flaming acetic anhydride.
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I could not find the post you refer to madscientist. The thread is quite long.
After my best of knowledge SO3 bubbled into GAA yields the anhydride. Perhaps it is possible to dehydrate this further to ketene, maybe. I would
propose to stop before this happens and to distill the anhydride out of the GAA. To go for a complete conversion is unrealistic.
btw. in the first thread, was this "Coen" misinforming by will or incompetence?
But SO3 is at least as nasty as ketene which is NOT to compare with phosgene. The anhydride reacts fast with every water and alone humidity is
sufficient to degrade some escaped traces.
The "lamp" or tube is a safe method if tried by someone with a minimum of responsibility. Those lacking the responsibility needed will
probably fail on the task to build the device. So there is more than only one advantage in this.
addon: looked up some things and got this:
It is imposssible to get ketene bubbling out of GAA except you pump masses of SO3 into it very fast. Still most ketene would react with the GAA to
form the anhydride. This reacts with SO3 to ketene. If the reaction is a controlled one and stopped before most GAA is anhydride no ketene is evolved.
I got the first hand tip that rapid stirring and/or a bubblestone in the receiving flask with the GAA are necessary if the lamp is used for to get all
ketene to react. To use a tube instead a flask was suggested.
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The seemingly ancient post to which I was referring to:
| Quote: | I'm not sure, but I think that it's possible that I prepared acetic anhydride by accident today. I mixed 164g CH3COONa (contaminated with a
small amount of NaHCO3, around 1-2g) with 75g 94% H2SO4. I then poured that into a flask; began heating it, and condensing the vapors (typical
distillation). I noticed a very strange, sickly-sweet odor; very difficult to describe. I got a whiff of a very small amount of it, causing me to
choke for a few moments. The condensed liquid (which I got 22mL of, if I remember correctly) was still liquid, showing no signs of imminent freezing,
at -10C. Now, if that had been acetic acid, it would have frozen at a far higher temperature than that... acetic anhydride, on the other hand, would
not freeze until the temperature was FAR lower. I'm postulating that the following reactions were occuring, forming at least a fair-sized
quantity of acetic anhydride (there is probably a significant amount of acetic acid remaining). Keep in mind that there was a slight stoichemical
excess of sulfuric acid.
2CH3COONa + H2SO4 --> 2CH3COOH + Na2SO4
7CH3COOH + H2SO4 --> 7CH2CO + H2SO4*7H2O
And of course, the following occurs:
CH2CO + CH3COOH --> CH3CO(O)OCCH3
Tomorrow I'll try droppering a small amount of the distilled liquid onto an aluminum plate; if there is no visible reaction, then it is
definitely high-purity acetic anhydride. Otherwise, it contains at least a medium amount of acetic acid.
I placed a few drops of the distilled liquid on a piece of aluminum foil. No visible bubbling, or audible bubbling, resulted. It has a pH of 1,
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I weep at the sight of flaming acetic anhydride.
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Sorry my fault.
Searched for "ketene" only, not the formula.
Scrubbing the fumes through GAA and distillation should solve it, also I never heard up to now of this.
Will have an closer look so time.
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toxicity of ketene
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But SO3 is at least as nasty as ketene which is NOT to compare with phosgene.
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I was actually referring to this:
Sorry for the german, but this source DOES indeed compare the toxicity of ketene with that of phosgene!
Keten
H2C=C=O, C2H2O, MG. 42,04. Durchdringend riechendes, äußerst giftiges Gas (MAK 0,5 ppm, die Toxizität liegt in der Größenordnung von Phosgen),
Schmp. –150°, Sdp. –56° (auch –50 od. –41° angegeben), das nur bei tiefen Temp. (–80°) einigermaßen beständig ist. Es muß daher stets
frisch hergestellt u. gleich weiterverarbeitet werden, da sonst Dimerisierung zu Diketen erfolgt. K. kann durch Pyrolyse aus dem Dimeren
zurückgewonnen werden, weshalb man Diketen als eine Speicherform betrachten kann; allerdings ist die Pyrolyse nicht ungefährlich u. wird auch nur
selten durchgeführt. Weitere Oligomere sind 3-Acetoxycyclobutenon (Lit. ) u. Dehydracetsäure.
Herst.: Techn. wird K. durch Wasser-Abspaltung aus Essigsäure gewonnen:
Man leitet Essigsäure-Dämpfe unter Zusatz geringer Mengen flüchtiger Phosphorsäureester über CrNiSi-Stahl (ca. 700°, 130 hPa, Wacker-Verf.). Um
die Rückreaktion zu verhindern, werden den Pyrolysegasen bas. Stoffe (z.B. Ammoniak, Pyridin) zugesetzt; ferner wird das Reaktionsgas rasch
abgekühlt. Auch Aceton ist Ausgangsmaterial zur Herst. von K.:
Aceton-Dampf wird unter dem katalyt. Einfluß von CS2 bei ca. 650° an Chrom-Nickel-Stahl therm. zersetzt. Im Laboratorium erfolgt die Erzeugung von
K. mit Hilfe der sog. K.-Lampe, bei der die Aceton-Pyrolyse an elektr. geheizten Wolfram-Drähten erfolgt.
Verw.: K. ist sehr reaktionsfähig, da es zwei kumulierte Doppelbindungen aufweist. Es wird eingesetzt zur Synth. von Sorbinsäure,
Cyclobutanon-Deriv., zur Acetylierung u. zur Herst. von Acetanhydrid (Hauptverw.), gemischten Anhydriden, Isopropenylacetat u. Celluloseacetat. Die
photochem. Decarbonylierung liefert Carben.
Lit.: 1 Helv. Chim. Acta 60, 975–977 (1977).
allg.: Beilstein EIV 1, 3418–3420 ï Chem. Ztg. 97, 67–73 (1973) ï DECHEMA-Monographie 42, 125–143 (1962) ï Giftliste ï Helv. Chim. Acta 53,
417–432 (1970) ï J. Chem. Educ. 53, 81–85 (1976) ï Moeschlin, Klinik u. Therapie der Vergiftungen, S. 336, Stuttgart: Thieme 1986 ï Ullmann
(4.) 14, 181ff.; (5.) A1, 69f. ï Weissermel-Arpe, S. 192–196 ï Winnacker-Küchler (3.) 4, 93–94; (4.) 6, 92 ï s.a. Diketen u. Ketene.
E ketene
F cétène
I chetene
S ceteno
CAS 463-51-4
G 3
Quelle: CD Römpp Chemie Lexikon – Version 1.0, Stuttgart/New York: Georg Thieme Verlag 1995
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What a luck I can read it..
Ok, I was again expressing myself not exactly enough.
I referrred not to the actual toxity of ketene but to the realworld fact that except you live in a very very dry enviroment ketene reacts with the
humidity in the air fast to acetic anhydride and this to acetic acid.
So this gas travel not long and far and if you stick your nose not very deep in the outlet of the tube you are quite safe.
This is an further advantage of the thermolytic process: the amount which is produced ad hoc is quite small and there is no danger of getting
overwhelmed by an outbreak of toxic gas.
By no way I wanted to say you are misinforming, sorry.
Compounds have to be judged in the situation, amount and enviroment they exist. This was what I tried to do. Have you looked for SO3 also?
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hmm i have no experience with ketene, or sources lining out how to handle
it....but after what you are saying it seems increasingly interesting for me...
How do you know it reacts that fast with moisture?
BTW, on the method which would involve SO3, i recall the following, -to my understanding- fairly cheap method:
2NaHSO4 ---> Na2S2O7 +H2O
Na2S2O7(sodium pyrosulfate) --->
(>400°C) Na2SO4 + SO3
.....rikkitikkitavi also mentioned that in some older posts
To give you some reference(again, sorry for it, in german):next post)
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Natriumhydrogensulfat
(Natriumbisulfat, Natriumhydrosulfat). Als Monohydrat NaHSO4 · H2O, MG.138,07, farblose, große, in Wasser sehr leicht lösl. Krist. (saure
Reaktion), die beim Erhitzen unter Wasserverlust zunächst in Natriumdisulfat (Natriumpyrosulfat, Na2S2O7, MG.222,16, farblose Kristallmasse, D.
2,658. Schmp. 401°, bei 460° Zers). übergehen:
bei weiterem Erhitzen entsteht Natriumsulfat unter Abspaltung von Schwefeltrioxid.
Herst.: Aus NaCl u. konz. Schwefelsäure:
Verw.: Zum Sauerstellen in der chem. Ind., Textil-, Papier-, Leder-, Kautschuk- u. Eisen-Ind., beim Färben von Wolle, zum Aufschließen schwerlösl.
Verb. in der chem. Analyse, Reinigung von Platintiegeln. Herst. von Na-sulfat, in Thermophoren u. dgl.
Lit.: Gmelin, Syst.-Nr. 21, Na, 1928, S. 586–592, Erg.-Bd. S. 246f., 1150–1161 ï Hommel 1004 ï Kirk-Othmer (3.) 21, 245–255.
E sodium hydrogensulfate
F hydrogénosulfate de sodium
I bisolfato di sodio
S hidrogenosulfato de sodio
Z 2833.19
CAS 7681-38-1
Quelle: CD Römpp Chemie Lexikon – Version 1.0, Stuttgart/New York: Georg Thieme Verlag 1995
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.....And:
Schwefeltrioxid
(Schwefelsäureanhydrid). SO3, MG. 80,06. SO3 existiert in drei Modif., die alle bei 44,8° sieden. Die g-Form (trimer) bildet farblose,
durchscheinende, an der Luft stark rauchende, eisartige Massen, D. 1,995 (bei 15°), Schmp. 16,8°; g-SO3 ist metastabil u. wandelt sich bei längerem
Aufbewahren unterhalb 25° um in polymeres b-SO3 (farblose, seidenglänzende, verfilzte Nadeln, Schmp. 32,5°) u. in polymeres a-SO3 (farblose Nadeln,
D. 1,97, Schmp. 62°; Schmp. um ca. 17° höher als Sdp.). Das im Handel erhältliche SO3 ist meist ein Gemisch aus (viel) b-SO3 u. (wenig) a-SO3 vom
Schmp. ca. 40° (nach anderen Angaben handelt es sich um g-SO3) od. eine rauchende Flüssigkeit, auf welche die Bez. Oleum (s. Schwefelsäure)
zurückgeht. Sog. stabiles SO3 enthält geringe Mengen an org. od. anorg. Substanzen, die die Umwandlung in die polymeren SO3-Modif. hemmen, z.B.
Thionylchlorid od. Oxalylchlorid. SO3 ist stark hygr. (starke Erhitzung, Bldg. von Schwefelsäure); fällt ein Tropfen Wasser auf SO3, so erfolgt eine
explosionsartige Reaktion. Viele org. Verb. werden durch SO3 vollständig dehydratisiert; daher verkohlt z.B. Cellulose in Ggw. von SO3.
Herst.: SO3 entsteht aus SO2 bei der Schwefelsäure-Fabrikation (Kontaktverf., s. Schwefelsäure) als Zwischenprodukt. Reines SO3 wird aus Oleum durch
sog. Oleostripping, z.B. durch Destillation u. Verflüssigung der Dämpfe gewonnen, wobei die Temp. von 27° nicht unterschritten werden darf, um ein
Erstarren des SO3 zu verhindern.
Verw.: Zur Herst. von Chlorsulfonsäure (s. Chloroschwefelsäure), Thionylchlorid, Amidoschwefelsäure, Dimethylsulfat, zur Sulfonierung org. Verb.,
insbes. in der Waschmittel-Ind. (lineare Alkylbenzolsulfonate). Im Laboratorium verwendet man zu Sulfonierungen oft Addukte von SO3 an Dioxan, Pyridin
od. Dimethylformamid.
Lit.: Encycl. Gaz, S. 1139–1144 ï Gmelin, Syst.-Nr. 9, S, Tl. A, 1942–1953, S. 320–484, Tl. B, 1953, S. 323–367 ï Hommel Nr. 184 ï
Synthesis 1979, 699f. ï VDI-Richtl. 2462/8 (März 1985) ï s.a. Schwefelsäure.
E sulfur trioxide
F trioxyde de soufre
I anidride solforica
S trióxido de azufre
Z 2811.29
CAS 7446-11-9
Quelle: CD Römpp Chemie Lexikon – Version 1.0, Stuttgart/New York: Georg Thieme Verlag 1995
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Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik wrote regarding ketene:
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I assumed the MERCK index to be true.
And I got some first hand information on the lamp. The very high reactivity with water was stated, I was warned by one experimentor not to expect to
high a reactivity with GAA and to use an effective bubbler/stirrer and a tube as receiving vessel plus a gas scrubber filled with water/lye.
My concept included always an aspirator to direct and enhance gasflow by minimizing the danger of excess overpressure building up in the system. The
aspirator disposes also the methane produced by the process and provides a second way to control the velocity of the acetone and the time it stays in
the hot-zone of the tube whats the keypoint of the reaction.
Of course would burning the methane to heat the tube be the most sophisticated and elegant solution but a short look at the necessary effort in
construction shows that this would destroy the genial simplicity of the device as is. ( the fact that the practical realization of this is would be
far out of reach for me may have played another, minor role in the decision ).
And open flames would afford the apparatus to be watched all time. Watching the washing machine washing is exiting compared to this and I tend to fall
asleep in meditations also....
(sleep is wrong, "state of ultradeep concentration" is better)
Conclusion: If you want acetic anhydride build the ketene lamp like described in VOGELs 3rd just use pottery/clay/furnace cement or similar instead
glass for the reaction chamber, incascient lamps, glass broken away three in line (try) for a dull red glow can be used as I was told, but if you
realy can´t get an old electroheater or hairdryer to abuse, PM me I have some left over. The rest can be made from metal with ease, copper is fine,
don´t use labglass but solder a "one piece no leaks" unit. An aspirator at end of the line is favourable.
Take VOGELs dimensions and build it in half a day if you have soldered copper tubing before.
If you cannot solve the problem how to get a virtual leakfree connection of reaction chamber (ceramics) and coppertube you should forget to build and
run a ketene producing apparatus.
One challenge must be left.
The tube has the advantage to be the higher intellectual task, to give much more possibilities to play with parameters ( no danger involved) and to be
a universal device. Most so urgently wanted but restricted compounds or their precursors can be made by pyrolytic reactions. This is truely worth a
look.
next month:
"Der Stein der Weisen" in three hours utilizing a microwave.
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Hmm... could you explain your idea with a practical example?
This could be interesting, but aren´t these kinds of anhydrides all made using P2O5, PCl5 and so on?
Correct me, if i´m wrong(would be pleasing)
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A caution on Oleum and SO3 in general
I've never used Oleum in a laboratory setting. I have had the opportunity to see 10 gallons, wheighing over 200 pounds, spilled into a metal pan
at a DuPont haz mat conference. The resultant plume of thick white smoke, a hundred yards wide, extending for a few miles, was thick enough to
completly block sunlight, and kill birds unlucky enough to fly through it. Yes, I said miles. The demonstration ended as crews in protective suits
approached the tank with firehoses and flooded the liquid, resulting in explosions of steam and acid which knocked a few men down as they held the
hoses. The diluted acid was then neutralized with soda lime. This is not a scenario I would wish to see repeated in someone's garage with even a
small amount of oleum. Chlorosulfonic acid did exactly the same thing.  If you
must experiment, make the quantities very small and plan for the worst case scenario.
Whoops....oh s**t!
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extracted from <i>the condensed chemical dictionary</i> (I write the important parts in bold italic):<br><b>acetic
anhydride</b> (acetyl oxide;acetic oxide)<br> (CH<sub>3</sub>CO)<sub>2</sub>O. 48th
highest-volume chemical pro-<br> duced in U.S. (1979).<br> Properties: Colorless, mobile, strongly
refractive<br> liquide; strong odor; sp. gr. 1.0830 (20/20°C); b.p.<br> 139.9°C; f.p. -73.1°C;
flash point 121°F (49.4°C)<br> (C.C.). Autoignition temp. 732°F (385°C); wt/gal<br> (20°C) 0.01
lbs. Miscible with alcohol, ether, and<br> acetic acid;<i><b> solouble in cold water; decomposes in
<b>hot</b><br> water to form acetic acid.</i></b>
Combustible.<br> <i><b>Derivation: (a) oxidation of actaldehyde with air or<br> oxygen with
catalyst; (b) by catalyzed thermal<br> decomposition of acetic acid to ketone; (c) reaction<br> of
methyl acetate and carbon monoxide; (d) from<br> carbon monoxide and methanol.</i></b><br> Grades:
C.P., technical(75, 85, 90-95%).<br> Containers: Bottles; carboys; aluminum drums;
tank<br> cars.<br> Hazards: Strongly irritating and corrosive; may cause<br> burns
and eye damage. Tolerance, 5 ppm in air.<br> Moderate fire risk.<br> Uses: Cellulose acetate fibers and
plastics; vinyl<br> acetate; dehydrating and acetylating agent in pro-<br> duction of
pharmaceuticals, dyes, perfumes, ex-<br> plosives, etc.; aspirin. Esterifying agent for
food<br> starch (5% max.).<br> Shipping Regulations: (Rail, Air) Corrosive label.<br>
Coen was going to give some info on acetaldehyde methode. plEASE do it. mixing GAA & acetaldehyde and bubbling air to get Ac2O makes too much
sense. just need to know about its catalyzer. the CO methodes seem very interesting too but don't have any furthur info. I strongly need googlin
around!
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Another interesting method:
Quite interesting...this is how chemistry attempted to produce sodium carbonate along with acetic anhydride in the 30ies.
2NaAc + CO2>(saturated alcoholic solution, <20°C) Na2CO3 + Ac2O(along with some acetic acid, depending on the initial water content),
preferably in a counterflow apparatus.
Generally, (british) patents of the 30ies seem to be a good source for alternative, often chemically very simple methods...
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http://www.cheresources.com/forums/forum1/messages/10302.sht...
Maybe a good book that was mentioned here, although Vogel´s book about preparative chemistry might do the job...
BTW, it´s here on the FTP, right?
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I'm really wondering if anyone has tried the method 2 posts up? It seems odd to me that people follow all these "exotic" and
"dangerous" methods to Ac2O when this exists. Additoinally, after spending countless hours on Beilstien over a long period and looking up
every reaction I think I would ever want to accomplish and then some...I have never even seen this associated with Ac2O. I'm going to have some
experimenting to do...I'll post results but would like to hear if anyone has done this!
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I just wanted to add that after thinking about this method it makes complete sense and I have a good amount of confidence that yield will be good too.
I noticed that the CO2 will be highly susceptible to nucleohpilic attack by the acetate oxygen. When an intermediate forms will then be attacked by
a second acetate at the carbonyl carbon kicking off CO3 which due to resonance will be very good leaving group. Immediate uptake of 2 Na+ cations
willl result in the completely insoluble Na2CO3 which willl cause any equillibrium which might have existed to be FAR to the right. Seems like the
reaction has everything going for it...
Yes I know...this is my first post. I've been a member here for quite some time just haven't been active. Anyway, I look forward to future
discussions with all ya'll as I will be here more frequently...
[Edited on 30-9-2003 by Al Koholic]
[Edited on 30-9-2003 by Al Koholic]
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It´s on my to-do-list too, but i don´t know how long it will take til i grab some time for experimenting.
Maybe sylvester??
However, it is nice to hear somebody attempts to try this method too(and has a little knowledge about organic chem)
I was only wondering how it would be possible to seperate the Ac2O from etOH.
-Wouldn´t it react to give ethyl acetate?
Maybe we can salt it out with sodium acetate or something?? - But then it is contaminated with the salt and it would have to be distilled off.
But yes, THIS patent fascinates me the most.
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Hmmm that slipped by me...yes the alcohol will react with the formed Ac2O to form ethyl acetate. I'm not sure how fast this reaction will
proceed though and it could in fact be quite slow if the temp is kept down who knows. I remember once reading a patent for Ac2O production that
generated water in situ but since the whole procedure was kept at such a low temp they had some time on their hands to remove the product before it
was noticably hydrolysed. I however do not think I want to be worrying about this type of thing with a prep.
My other idea is to use some solvent other than alcohol. Perhaps pyridine would work...
HOAc should dissolve quite well in pyridine (being basica and all) and yield acetate anions. Now bubbling CO2 through would kinda work the same way
but I would be concerned that instead of making Na2CO3 as a by-product we would be making H2CO3 which would just split to H2O and CO2 again hence
hydrolyzing the product. Hmmm...
Or perhaps the formation of carbonic acid would be stable if it complexed with the pyridine.
This is all just thinking off the top of my head here unfortunately. I have no idea what the real effects of a reaction like this would be...must
have to experiment sometime with it I suppose. At least any Ac2O formed wouldn't react if it does work the way I hope it would...
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My ketene lamp
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