Could somebody please suggest a solvent that dissolves either of the Thionyl Chloride or Trimesoyl Chloride to separate them using Liquid Liquid Extraction. Or we need a solvent to crystallise out TMC from a solution of Thionyl Chloride and TMC. Thanks in advance for the inputs.
Dear Divyansh Jindal the easiest (and certainly best) way to separate the two products is distillation. You can just remove the excess thionyl chloride by distillation under normal pressure and then purify your trimesoyl chloride by vacuum distillation (oil pump vacuum). Good luck!
Professor Frank T. Edelmann , I would be really grateful if you could suggest me a journal/Research paper that I can use for a citation.
Thank you.
Dear Divyansh Jindal you could for example cite the following patent:
https://patents.google.com/patent/CN103641710A/en
The purification of trimesoyl chloride is described here essentially as I suggested:
"The invention belongs to the field of organic synthesis, and in particular relates to a synthesis method for trimesoyl chloride. The synthesis method comprises the following steps of reacting trimesic acid with thionyl chloride in the premise of a catalyst; performing distillation to remove the thionyl chloride after reaction, and performing distillation under reduced pressure to obtain the trimesoyl chloride."
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