Ammonia → alpha-Amino-1,3-benzodioxole-5-acetonitrile

HRID 323011

Reaction equation

HRID 323011 reaction equation
[CH:1]1[C:6]([CH:7]=O)=[CH:5][C:4]2[O:9][CH2:10][O:11][C:3]=2[CH:2]=1.[NH3:12].[NH4+:13].[Cl-].[C-:15]#N.[K+].[O-]S([O-])(=O)=O.[Mg+2]>C1COCC1>[NH2:12][CH:7]([C:6]1[CH:1]=[CH:2][C:3]2[O:11][CH2:10][O:9][C:4]=2[CH:5]=1)[C:15]#[N:13]

Participants

7

Reactant 5

HCID 222AmmoniaHCID 8438PiperonalHCID 9032Potassium CyanideHCID 24083Sulfuric acid magnesium salt (1:1)HCID 25517Ammonium Chloride

Product 1

HCID 4405684alpha-Amino-1,3-benzodioxole-5-acetonitrile

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 8028TetrahydrofuranSolvent

Procedure

Piperonal (6.00 g) is dissolved in THF (25 mL) and aq. NH3 (58%, 4.2 mL), NH4Cl (3.3 g) and KCN (3.9 g) are added. The mixture is stirred efficiently for 24 h. MgSO4 is added and the mixture stirred for 30 min., filtered and washed with THF. The filtrate is evaporated under reduced pressure and the residue purified by FC (Et2O/petrol ether 1:2,→2:1,→Et2O). Aminonitrile W-99 is obtained as a brown, unstable oil (2.87 g). The hydrochloride salt is precipitated from sat. HCl/Et2O for analytical purposes.

Workup

  1. stirringthe mixture stirred for 30 min.
  2. filtrationfiltered
  3. washwashed with THF
  4. customThe filtrate is evaporated under reduced pressure
  5. customthe residue purified by FC (Et2O/petrol ether 1:2,→2:1,→Et2O)

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-6f3872981ba44ed0a4dc05cc01bc6b5d
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2001_04
Patent number
US06211376B1

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