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benzyl alcohol react with formaldehyde
product?​

Answer 1

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Benzyl alcohol is currently produced by hydrolysis of benzyl chloride and the by-products are sodium chloride and carbon dioxide. A “green chemistry” route would be the direct synthesis from benzene and formaldehyde. Therefore, ZSM-5, a medium pore zeolite, was used to evaluate the potential of using shape selective catalysis to control the product distribution obtained by alkylation of benzene with formaldehyde. The restriction of the channels resulted in a synthesis of benzyl alcohol and benzylmethyl ether. Neither of these products is obtained with a Friedel–Crafts' catalyst, such as AlCl3, nor with HY zeolite

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