Methylparaben → 4-(3-Fluoro-5-nitro-phenoxy)-benzoic acid methyl ester

HRID 2197945

Reaction equation

HRID 2197945 reaction equation
[CH3:1][O:2][C:3](=[O:11])[C:4]1[CH:9]=[CH:8][C:7]([OH:10])=[CH:6][CH:5]=1.CC([O-])(C)C.[K+].[F:18][C:19]1[CH:24]=[C:23]([N+:25]([O-:27])=[O:26])[CH:22]=[C:21](F)[CH:20]=1>CS(C)=O.O>[CH3:1][O:2][C:3](=[O:11])[C:4]1[CH:9]=[CH:8][C:7]([O:10][C:21]2[CH:22]=[C:23]([N+:25]([O-:27])=[O:26])[CH:24]=[C:19]([F:18])[CH:20]=2)=[CH:6][CH:5]=1

Participants

6

Procedure

To a solution of 4-hydroxybenzoic acid methyl ester (3.00 g, 19.5 mmol) in DMSO (30 ml) was added t-BuOK (2.56 g, 21.5 mmol) at room temperature and the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 30 minutes under N2 flow. 1,3-Difluoro-5-nitrobenzene (2.34 ml, 20.5 mmol) was added dropwise at room temperature. The mixture was heated at 90° C. for 2 hours under N2 flow. The reaction mixture was cooled to room temperature, diluted with H2O, and then extracted with EtOAc. The extract washed with H2O and brine, dried over MgSO4, filtered and concentrated under vacuum giving the title compound as a dark brown oil, which was crystallized with i-Pr2O. The crystals were collected by filtration to give the desired product as pale yellow crystal (1.92 g, 40%). The filtrate gave additional product (1.46 g, 30%) as pale yellow crystal by silica gel column chromatography eluting with 4:1 EtOAc/hexane.

Workup

  1. temperatureThe mixture was heated at 90° C. for 2 hours under N2 flow
  2. temperatureThe reaction mixture was cooled to room temperature
  3. extractionextracted with EtOAc
  4. washThe extract washed with H2O and brine
  5. dry with materialdried over MgSO4
  6. filtrationfiltered
  7. concentrationconcentrated under vacuum

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-ee703d9db1e04a788041b2a23f761049
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2012_12
Patent number
US08338605B2

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