Lauryl Chloroformate incorporates a 12-carbon chain-link as its alkyl component. It is a fundamental chemical for the production of pesticides, perfumes, dyes and fuel additives. Hence discerning its physicochemical solvent properties is important to chemical industries. In this project, the solvent chemistry of lauryl chloroformate was studied at 25.0 Celsius in several binary aqueous-organic mixture in ethanol (EtOH), methanol (MeOH), acetone, 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol (TFE) and 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoro-2-propanol (HFIP). In all of these solvent reactions, the resultant product is hydrochloric acid (HCl). As a result acid base titrations are utilized as a core method for the reaction analyses. A mixture of sodium methoxide (methylate) in methanol is used as the base that is paired with a lacmoid-acetone mixture to identify the neutralization end-point. In this poster, we present the pseudo first-order rates of reaction that were obtained.<br/><u>Grant Support</u>: National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR Grant No. IIA-1301765 (DE-EPSCoR RII-3 program), an NSF S-STEM grant (NSF DUE 1355554 - the Wesley College Cannon Scholar program) and the State of Delaware

Solvent reactions of lauryl chloroformate

251st National Meeting (2016)

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