Nuclear Structure of the Water-soluble Polycarboxylic Acids from the Oxidation of Bituminous Coal: The Decarboxylation Reaction1
Nuclear Structure of the Water-soluble Polycarboxylic Acids from the Oxidation of Bituminous Coal: The Decarboxylation Reaction1
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01608a026
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发表时间:
1955-02
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15
通讯作者:
Jacob Entel
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作者:
Jacob Entel
Aqueous suspensions of the copper salts of the yellow, water-soluble, polycarboxylic aromatic acids producedby the con-trolled oxidation of aqueous alkaline suspensions ofbituminous coal have been decarboxylated at a temperature of 250. The volume of C02 produced indicated 96-99% removal of carboxyl groups. From the decarboxylation products, which were investigated in an exploratory qualitative manner, there were isolated and identified benzene, naphthalene, biphenyl, biphenylene oxide, phenanthrene, benzophenone, fluorenone, phenol, benzoic acid, the lactone of 2-hydroxybiphenyl-2'-carboxylic acid, pyridine, quinoline,-, ß-,-phenylpyridine and/3-naphthoquinoline. A discussion is presented of the re-lationships ofthese compounds to some of the nuclei of the aromatic acids produced by the oxidation of bituminous coal, and to some of the fundamental units which comprise the coal structure.The controlled oxidation of aqueous suspensions of bituminous coals has producedyellow, watersoluble, polycarboxylic aromatic acids in yields of 50-60% by weight of coalcharged. 3 A knowledge of the nuclear structure of these acids is of impor-tance for possible commercial applications ofthese acids as well as for extrapolation of this knowledge for a better understanding of the fundamental units which comprise the coal structure. The nuclei ofthese acids were parts of the com-plex coal “molecule” that were resistant to further degradation under these oxidation conditions; they do not necessarily exist, per se, as individual entities in coal.