goose
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Acquire trimesic acid.
All of the online sources of trimesic acid I can find are prohibitively expensive. Would a synthesis from toluene be the best option (The only problem
with that is that I cannot get aluminum trichloride)?
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I had to Google that one, but how much do you need? And do you have a reference to the synth from toluene? If all you need is a little maybe you can
work out something with in situ generated AlCl3?
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There’s some discussion in the benzene sticky thread about disproportionation of toluene to benzene and mesitylene using catalytic AlCl3, and some
speculation about generating it in situ, but I don’t know if anyone ever got around to trying it, because I haven’t read all 14 pages of that
thread.
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http://www.orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep=CV1P0341
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goose
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Not much, only 10-20ml.
Thanks Mackolol that route looks better than using methyl halides. Mesitylene to trimesic shouldn't be to bad, I plan on following a procedure for
tolulene oxidation, except increasing the amount of KMnO4. That seems like the best option.
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Toluene (dry) + Aluminium (even fol works) + iodine. Boil boil boil and then boil it a little bit longer.
In situ formed AlI3 works even better then AlCl3, workup is by simple fractional distillation.
courtesy of Osmium at the HIVE
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I have my doubts about Osmium but I think the chemistry there makes sense.
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