Kojic Acid → Chlorokojic acid

Temperature

10 °C

50 g(351.8 mmol) of kojic acid was dissolved in 250 ml of N,N-dimethylformamide. The resulting solution was cooled in a ice bath of 10° C. and 30 ml(411.3 mmole) of thionyl chloride was added dropwise thereto. The mixture was stirred at a room temperature for 2 hours and 2000 ml of ice water was added. The precipitates were filtered and dissolved into 1000 ml of ethyl acetate. The reaction product was dried over magnesium sulfate, decolored with active charcoal and filtered. The filtrate was concentrated and hexane was added to give crystals, which was then dried under vacuum to give 37.5 g(66.83%) of the desired chlorokojic acid as a yellow solid.

1. filtrationThe precipitates were filtered
2. dissolutiondissolved into 1000 ml of ethyl acetate
3. dry with materialThe reaction product was dried over magnesium sulfate
4. filtrationfiltered
5. concentrationThe filtrate was concentrated
6. additionhexane was added
7. customto give crystals, which
8. customwas then dried under vacuum

ORD record

ord-8e4894ec7a404f27b9bad3889dbbf050

Source dataset

uspto-grants-1996_06

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US05523421