Results and Discussion
The synthesis of acetanilide & its derivatives was carried out successfully by using both conventional method as well as green chemistry method. The synthesized products were recrystallized and melting point was taken which are compatible with the reported melting points. The percent yield obtained by green chemistry method was found to be more than that of conventional method. All the compounds were characterized by FTIR which shows the presence of
aromatic ring (3055-3122 cm-1), amine group (3275-3481 cm-1), amide (1631-1676 cm-1) that characterized
the said compounds. The atom economy was calculated on basis of the molecular weight of desired product and the molecular weight of all the products. From this calculation, it was seen that the atom economy is more in case of green chemistry than by the conventional method of synthesis. The found values signify the utility of method in which atom economy was obtained in the range of 70% to75%. The detail results are tabulated