Acids maleic

Krilium The trade name of a soil conditioner. The solid form of Krilium has as active in-gredienl a copolymer of about equal molar proportions of vinyl ethanoate and the partial methyl ester of maleic acid. It may be formulated with lime, bentonite, etc. In aqueous form, Krilium contains a copolymer of about equal molar proportions of isobutene and ammonium maleamate. Other polymers are also used. 

H02C(CH2)2C02H. Colourless prisms m.p. 182 C, b.p. 235°C. Occurs in amber, algae, lichens, sugar cane, beets and other plants, and is formed during the fermentation of sugar, tartrates, malates and other substances by a variety of yeasts, moulds and bacteria. Manufactured by the catalytic reduction of maleic acid or by heating 1,2-dicyanoethane with acids or alkalis. Forms an anhydride when heated at 235°C. Forms both acid and neutral salts and esters. Used in the manufacture of succinic anhydride and of polyesters with polyols. 

Mesotartaric acid crystallizes in plates (IHjO), m.p. 140 C (anhydrous). Very soluble in water. Obtained from the mother-liquors in the preparation of racemic acid or by oxidation of maleic acid. Potassium hydrogen mesotartrale is soluble in water. 

Mix 100 g. of maleic acid (Section 111,143) and 100 ml. of tetra chloroethane in a 250 ml. Claisen or distilling flask provided with a thermometer, and attach a Pyrex Liebig condenser. Heat the flask in an air bath (Fig. 11, 5, 3) and collect the distillate in a measuring cylinder. When the temperature reaches 160°, 76 ml. of tetrachloroethane and 15-15-5 ml. of water are present in the receiver. Empty the water in the condenser and continue the distillation change the receiver when the temperature reaches 190°. Collect the maleic anhydride at 195-197°. Recrystallise the crude anhydride from chloroform. The yield of pure maleic anhydride, m.p. 54°, is 70 g. 

Preparation of silver maleate. Dissolve 65 g. of pure maleic acid (Section 111,143) in the calculated quantity of carefully standardised 3-5N aqueous ammonia solution in a 1-htre beaker and add, whilst stirring mechanically, a solution of 204 g. of silver nitrate in 200 ml. of water. Filter oflf the precipitated silver maleate at the pump, wash it with distilled water, and press well with the back of a large flat glass stopper. Dry in an electric oven at 50-60° to constant weight. The yield of the dry silver salt is 150 g. Store in a vacuum desiccator in the dark. 

Maleic acid may be prepared by warming malic acid with acetyl chloride, distilling the mixture under atmospheric pressure to isolate maleic anhydride, and hydrolysing the latter by boding with water. 

Upon heating with hydrochloric acid, maleic acid, m.p. 144°, is converted into fumaric acid, m.p. 287° ... 

Both acids 3deld succinic acid, m.p. 185°, upon catalytic reduction (see Section 111,150), thus establishing their structures. Maleic and fumaric acids are examples of compounds exhibiting cis-trans isomerism (or geometric isomerism). Maleic acid has the cm structure since inter alia it readily 3delds the anhydride (compare Section 111,93). Fumaric acid possesses the trans structure it does not form an anhydride, but when heated to a high temperature gives maleic anhydride. 

A. Maleic acid. Assemble the apparatus shown in Fig. Ill, 28, 1. Place 45 g. of dry mahc acid in the 200-250 ml. distilling flask and cautiously add 63 g. (57 ml.) of pure acetyl chloride. Warm the flask gently on a water bath to start the reaction, which then proceeds exothermically. Hydrogen chloride is evolved and the malic acid passes into solution. When the evolution of gas subsides, heat the flask on a water bath for 1-2 hours. Rearrange the apparatus and distil. A fraction of low boiling point passes over first and the temperature rises rapidly to 190° at this point run out the water from the condenser. Continue the distillation and collect the maleic anhydride at 195-200°. Recrystallise the crude maleic anhydride from chloroform (compare Section 111,93) 22 g. of pure maleic anhydride, m.p. 54°, are obtained. 

To obtain maleic acid, evaporate the maleic anhydride with one half of its weight of water on a water bath remove the last traces of water by leaving in a desiccator over concentrated sulphuric acid. The resulting maleic acid has m.p. 143° and is quite pure (1). It may be recrystaUised, if desired, from acetone- light petroleum (b.p. 60-80°) and then melts at 144° (1). 

I) The melting point of pure maleic acid depends to a marked degree upon the rate of heating, and values between 133° and 143-144° may be observed. Slow heating (about 20 minutes) gives a value of 133-134° with more rapid heating... 

B. Conversion of maleic acid into fumaric acid. Dissolve 10 g. of maleic acid in 10 ml. of warm water, add 20 ml. of concentrated hydrochloric acid and reflux gently (provide the flask with a reflux condenser) for 30 minutes. Crystals of fumaric acid soon crystaUise out from the hot solution. Allow to cool, filter oflF the fumaric acid, and recrystallise it from hot. A -hydrochloric acid. The m.p. in a sealed capillary tube is 286-287°. 

Nucleophilic addition of 2-aminothiazole to the double bond of di-maleic acid hydrazine has been reported (206). No spectroscopic proof, however, is given to establish the proposed structure (60) for the resulting product (Scheme 41). 

The reaction is reversible and its stereochemical requirements are so pronounced that neither the cis isomer of fumaric acid (maleic acid) nor the R enantiomer of malic acid can serve as a substrate for the fumarase catalyzed hydration-dehydration equilibrium... 

The H NMR spectra of formic acid (HCO2H) maleic acid cis H02CCH=CHC02H) and malonic acid (HO2CCH2CO2H) are similar in that each is charactenzed by two singlets of equal intensity Match these compounds with the designations A B and C on the basis of the appro pnate H NMR chemical shift data... 

Poly(chlorotrifluoroethylene) (PCTFE) Butadiene-maleic acid copolymer (BMC)... 

Perfluoroalkoxy (PEA) resin Styrene-maleic acid copolymer (SMC)... 

Extrusion- Injection acid copolymer. maleic acid Putty, Glass-fiber- Polyimide,... 

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