A Cheap, Simple and Efficient Method for the Preparation of Symmetrical Carboxylic Acid Anhydrides

Foad Kazemi; Hashem Sharghi; Mohammad Ali Nasseri

doi:10.1055/s-2003-44381

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A Cheap, Simple and Efficient Method for the Preparation of Symmetrical Carboxylic Acid Anhydrides

Foad Kazemi^a, Hashem Sharghi*^b, Mohammad Ali Nasseri^b
^a Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Chamran University, Ahvaz, I. R. Iran
^b Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, 71454, I. R. Iran
Fax: +98(711)2286008; e-Mail: shashem@chem.susc.ac.ir;

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A manipulatively simple and facile one-pot procedure for the synthesis of symmetrical anhydride is reported. Treatment of carboxylic acids with tosyl chloride in K₂CO₃ media under solvent free conditions gives the corresponding anhydrides in good to excellent yields in a short reaction time via carboxylic sulfonic anhydride as the key intermediate.

Key words

anhydrides - tosyl chloride - grinding - carboxylic acid

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