1,2-Dibromoethane → 1-(3-Chloro-2-methylphenyl)cyclohexanol

HRID 249462

Reaction equation

HRID 249462 reaction equation
BrCCBr.Cl[C:6]1[CH:11]=[CH:10][CH:9]=[C:8]([Cl:12])[C:7]=1[CH3:13].[C:14]1(=[O:20])[CH2:19][CH2:18][CH2:17][CH2:16][CH2:15]1>O1CCCC1>[Cl:12][C:8]1[C:7]([CH3:13])=[C:6]([C:14]2([OH:20])[CH2:19][CH2:18][CH2:17][CH2:16][CH2:15]2)[CH:11]=[CH:10][CH:9]=1

Participants

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Procedure

96 g (4 moles) of Mg turnings in 60 ml of absolute tetrahydrofuran (THF) are initially taken under a nitrogen atmosphere. 1 ml of 1,2-dibromoethane is added at 65° C., after which a solution of 644 g (4 moles) of 2,6-dichlorotoluene in 1.5 1 of absolute THF is added dropwise in the course of 21/4 hours. Thereafter, the mixture is stirred for 4 hours under reflux and cooled to room temperature, and 352.8 g (3.6 moles) of cyclohexanone in 250 ml of absolute THF are added under nitrogen. When the reaction is complete, the Grignard reaction mixture is worked up in an aqueous medium in a conventional manner and the solvent is substantially removed by distillation under reduced pressure. The residue is subjected to incipient distillation (30°-107° C./0.27 mbar). The remaining crude product (676 g), which contains as much as 90% of 1-(3'-chloro-2'-methylphenyl)-cyclohexanol, can be further purified by column chromatography using toluene as the mobile phase.

Workup

  1. temperatureunder reflux
  2. customthe Grignard reaction mixture
  3. customthe solvent is substantially removed by distillation under reduced pressure
  4. distillationThe residue is subjected to incipient distillation (30°-107° C./0.27 mbar)
  5. customcan be further purified by column chromatography

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-b33c2528f031498c8ad5385a6c7670fc
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1993_05
Patent number
US05214187

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