Lithium
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ligitimate benzaldehyde uses
hello
i have found an electrochemical route to benzaldehyde in the toluene to benzaldehyde thread, which is quite available for me, but i have no use for
it.
i don't know what i could use it for, could someone enlighten me?
i am particularly interested in aromatic esters. i want to make benzyl alcohol, without using LiAlH4 or LiBH4.
Ps. i am not a cook
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A good way to make use of benzaldehyde is to oxidize it with a Cr2O7 2- or MnO4- salt. That way you get benzoic acid, which opens up a lot of new
opportunities, to make salts, esters when combined with sulfuric acid catalyst, etc.
It would be very difficult to make benzyl alcohol without the reducing agent, though.
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Cannizzaro reaction?
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Lithium
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that is a good one stygian, it has low yields though
weiming1998, i was thinking of something not so readily available, as i can easily buy 1kg lots of Na benzoate.
could raspberry ketone be synthesised from it?
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You could partially oxidise the toluene to the alcohol, rather than trying to reduce the higher oxidation variations.
Benzyl alcohol is made industrially from benzyl chloride.
Len made a detailed post about producing benzyl and benzal chloride from toluene.
Our bodies metabolise toluene to benzyl alcohol. Specifically, the cytochrome p450 enzymes. That's actually a big group of different enzymes and a lot of them can perform interesting manipulations that sometimes
require rather difficult glassware chemistry.
You could use the aldehyde to make your own Malachite green dye.
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Why don't you make and isolate some benzaldehyde just because you can? Its difficult to avoid over oxidizing the aldehyde
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble
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