Acetic anhydride, or ethanoic anhydride, is the chemical compound with the formula (CH3CO)2O. Commonly abbreviated Ac2O, it is the simplest isolable anhydride...
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the condensation of two molecules of acetic acid is acetic anhydride. The worldwide production of acetic anhydride is a major application, and uses approximately...
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anhydride. Thus, (CH3CO)2O is called acetic anhydride. Mixed (or unsymmetrical) acid anhydrides, such as acetic formic anhydride (see below), are known, whereby...
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Acetic formic anhydride is an organic compound with the chemical formula C 3H 4O 3, which can be viewed as the mixed anhydride of acetic acid and formic...
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Acetic oxalic anhydride is an organic compound with a chemical formula of C 6H 6O 6 and a structural formula of (H3C-(C=O)-O-(C=O)-)2. It can be viewed...
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Monsanto process (redirect from Monsanto acetic acid process)
acetate salts or acetic acid to give the anhydride. Rhodium iodides and lithium salts are employed as catalysts. Because acetic anhydride hydrolyzes, the...
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Trifluoroacetic anhydride (TFAA) is the acid anhydride of trifluoroacetic acid. It is the perfluorinated derivative of acetic anhydride. Trifluoroacetic anhydride was...
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chemist Paul Schützenberger discovered that cellulose reacts with acetic anhydride to form cellulose acetate. The German chemists Arthur Eichengrün and...
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produced from a chemical reaction (named as acetylation), involving acetic anhydride and a modification process to make wood highly resistant to biological...
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Monsanto acetic acid process and Cativa process, which convert methanol to acetic acid. In another major industrial process, acetic anhydride is prepared...
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