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Reactivity Documentation

Aldehydes

mixed with

Acids, Carboxylic

Summary

Details

Aldehydes is a reactive group.
Acids, Carboxylic is a reactive group.

Reactivity Predictions (for each pair of reactive groups)

Acids, Carboxylic mixed with
Aldehydes

Hazard Predictions

Acetaldehyde polymerizes exothermically with acetic acid or trifluoroacetic acid, even at low temperatures (MCA Case History No. 1764, Case Histories of Accidents in the Chemical Industry, Washington, Manufacturing Chemists' Association; Fleischmann, G., R. Jira. 2002. Acetaldehyde. In Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. (Online)). However, acetic acid is used to QUENCH runaway base-catalyzed polymerization in acrolein, often in a solution with 8% hydroquinone, 8% sodium acetate, and 84% acetic acid (Arntz, D., M. Hopp, S. Jacobi, J. Sauer, T. Ohara, T. Sato, N. Shimizu, G. Prescher, H. Schwind, and O. Weiberg. 2002. Acrolein. In Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. (Online)).

The reaction of malonic acid and formaldehyde liberates inert CO2 gas (Walker, F. J., Formaldehyde. New York: ACS Monograph Series, 1964, pp. 347).

Potential Gas Byproducts