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This invention relates to a process for preparing phenylacetic acid. In particular, the present invention relates to a catalytic process for the synthesis of the alkaline salts of phenylacetic acid by carbonylation of benzyl halides in a diphase system in the presence of cobalt carbonyl complexes. More particularly, the present invention relates to a process for preparing alkaline salts of phenylacetic acid by reacting a benzyl halide selected from chloride and bromide with carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst consisting in a salt of cobalt hydrocarbonyl, characterized in that the reaction is conducted in an aqueous/organic diphase system consisting of (a) an aqueous solution of an inorganic alkaline base, and (b) the benzyl halide in an organic solvent, in the presence of a catalyst system composed by a quaternary alkylammonium salt and by a cobalt hydrocarbonyl salt, at atmospheric pressure and at a temperature ranging from 20 DEG to 70 DEG C about.
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