Water → {2-(2,3,4,5-Tetramethylcyclopentadienyl)phenyl}phenylmethylalcohol

HRID 15698

Reaction equation

HRID 15698 reaction equation
[CH3:1][C:2]1[CH:3]([C:10]2[CH:17]=[CH:16][CH:15]=[CH:14][C:11]=2[CH:12]=[O:13])[C:4]([CH3:9])=[C:5]([CH3:8])[C:6]=1[CH3:7].[C:18]1([Li])[CH:23]=[CH:22][CH:21]=[CH:20][CH:19]=1.O.C1(C)C=CC=CC=1>O1CCCC1.C1CCCCC1.CCOCC>[CH3:1][C:2]1[CH:3]([C:10]2[CH:17]=[CH:16][CH:15]=[CH:14][C:11]=2[CH:12]([OH:13])[C:18]2[CH:23]=[CH:22][CH:21]=[CH:20][CH:19]=2)[C:4]([CH3:9])=[C:5]([CH3:8])[C:6]=1[CH3:7]

Participants

8

Procedure

To a solution of 2-(2,3,4,5-tetramethylcyclopentadienyl)benzaldehyde (2.0 g, 8.80 mmol) in tetrahydrofuran (34.0 mL) was added dropwise a 1.05 M solution of phenyllithium in cyclohexane and ether (17.7 mL) at −78° C. The temperature of the mixture was raised to room temperature and the mixture was stirred for 4 hrs. To the reaction mixture solution were added deionized water (20.0 mL) and toluene (20.0 mL) to separate an organic layer and an aqueous layer. The organic layer was dried over sodium sulfate, then distilled to remove the solvent, and purified by a silica gel column (hexane/ethyl acetate=9/1) to give {2-(2,3,4,5-tetramethylcyclopentadienyl)phenyl}phenylmethylalcohol (2.83 g, yield 87.0%) as a pale yellow oily substance.

Workup

  1. customto separate an organic layer
  2. dry with materialThe organic layer was dried over sodium sulfate
  3. distillationdistilled
  4. customto remove the solvent
  5. custompurified by a silica gel column (hexane/ethyl acetate=9/1)

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-26e9f2d2099144b3b3ab23636d67b9e4
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2010_06
Patent number
US07732643B2

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