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)?Tsjerk - 22-3-2022 at 10:54
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?Texium - 22-3-2022 at 11:04
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.mackolol - 22-3-2022 at 13:28
I had to Google that one, but how much do you need?
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.Organikum - 26-7-2022 at 11:47
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
/ORGclearly_not_atara - 27-7-2022 at 02:52
I have my doubts about Osmium but I think the chemistry there makes sense.
