A student added 3-phenylpropanoic acid to a molten salt consisting of a 1:1 mixture of NaCl and maintained at 170 °C. After 5 m
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A student added 3-phenylpropanoic acid to a molten salt consisting of a 1:1 mixture of NaCl and
maintained at 170 °C. After 5 minutes, he poured the molten mixture into water and extracted it into dichloromethane.
Evaporation of the dichloromethane gave a 96% yield of the product whose spectra follow. The mass spectrum of the prod
uct shows a molecular ion at mz132. What is the product? >
AlCl3
1PhCH2CH2COOH2
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