Phosphorus oxychloride → 2-Chloro-8-fluoroquinoline
Reaction equation
[F:1][C:2]1[CH:3]=[CH:4][CH:5]=[C:6]2[C:11]=1[NH:10][C:9](=O)[CH:8]=[CH:7]2.P(Cl)(Cl)([Cl:15])=O>>[Cl:15][C:9]1[CH:8]=[CH:7][C:6]2[C:11](=[C:2]([F:1])[CH:3]=[CH:4][CH:5]=2)[N:10]=1Participants
3
Conditions
- Temperature
- 125 °C
Procedure
8-Fluoroquinolin-2(1H)-one (26.0 g, 159 mmol) was slurried with phosphoryl trichloride (163 ml, 1.73 mol, 11 eq) and heated to 125° C. for 2 h. The reaction was cooled to rt and poured onto 1.2 L of ice water with vigorous stirring. When the mixture had cooled to rt, the orange solid was filtered and washed with water and dried under vacuum overnight to afford 27 g of crude material. The crude material was recrystallized from hexanes by dissolving in ˜700 mL of hexanes at reflux and decanting away from residual tar. The hexane solution was cooled to 0° C. and the precipitate 2-chloro-8-fluoroquinoline was filtered. The mother liquor was concentrated in vacuo and recrystallized from hexanes to obtain a second crop of 2-chloro-8-fluoroquinoline (21.3 g, 74% total yield).