Diethyl (cyanomethyl)phosphonate → 3-(3,4-Diethylphenyl)-3-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)acrylonitrile

HRID 366632Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 366632 reaction equation
COC1C=C(C(C2C=CC(OC)=C(OC)C=2)=CC(OC)=O)C=CC=1OC.[CH2:27]([C:29]1[CH:30]=[C:31]([C:37](=O)[C:38]2[CH:43]=[CH:42][C:41]([O:44][CH3:45])=[C:40]([O:46][CH3:47])[CH:39]=2)[CH:32]=[CH:33][C:34]=1[CH2:35][CH3:36])[CH3:28].C(OP([CH2:57][C:58]#[N:59])(=O)OCC)C.C[Si](C)(C)[N-][Si](C)(C)C.[Li+]>CCCCCC>[CH2:27]([C:29]1[CH:30]=[C:31]([C:37]([C:38]2[CH:43]=[CH:42][C:41]([O:44][CH3:45])=[C:40]([O:46][CH3:47])[CH:39]=2)=[CH:57][C:58]#[N:59])[CH:32]=[CH:33][C:34]=1[CH2:35][CH3:36])[CH3:28]

Participants

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Procedure

3-(3,4-Diethylphenyl)-3-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)acrylonitrile was prepared analogously to methyl 3,3-bis-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)acrylate using 3',4'-diethyl-3,4-dimethoxybenzophenone (0.51 g, 1.7 mmol), diethylcyanomethylphosphonate (0.31 mL, 1.9 mmol) and lithium hexamethyldisilazide (1.4 mL, 1.9 mmol, 1.3M) with a reaction time of 60 hours at room temperature. The crude product was purified by chromatography (silica gel, 1% ethyl acetate/methylene chloride) to afford an oil which was stirred in hexane until it solidified. The resulting slurry was filtered, the solid washed with hexane, air dried, and dried in vacuo to afford 0.31 g (57%) of a mixture of the E and Z isomers as an off white solid: mp 78-82° C.; 1H NMR (CDCl3) δ 7.30-6.75 (m, 12 H), 5.61 (s, 1 H), 5.60 (s, 1 H), 3.94 (s, 3 H), 3.92 (s, 3 H), 3.87 (s, 3 H), 3.83 (s, 3 H), 2.80-2.59 (m, 8 H), 1.35-1.14 (m, 12 H); 13C NMR (CDCl3) δ 163.0, 163.0, 151.0, 150.5, 148.8, 148.6, 144.6, 143.9, 142.1, 141.8, 136.8, 134.5, 131.9, 129.7, 128.6, 128.5, 128.2, 127.3, 126.3, 123.2, 122.2, 118.7, 118.6, 112.8, 111.3, 110.7, 92.5, 92.2, 56.1, 56.0, 25.5, 25.4, 25.4, 25.3, 15.3, 15.2, 15.0, 14.9; Anal. Calcd for C21H23NO2. Theoretical: C, 78.47; H, 7.21; N, 4.36. Found: C, 77.80; H, 7.25; N, 4.68.

Workup

  1. customwith a reaction time of 60 hours
  2. customat room temperature
  3. customThe crude product was purified by chromatography (silica gel, 1% ethyl acetate/methylene chloride)
  4. customto afford an oil which
  5. filtrationThe resulting slurry was filtered
  6. washthe solid washed with hexane, air
  7. customdried
  8. customdried in vacuo

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-0a7e5ffcd014466c99b3214b6490cfdd
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2000_10
Patent number
US06130226

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