Acetylacetone → 2,8-Dimethyldibenzofuran

HRID 441758

Reaction equation

[CH3:1][C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][C:5]([O:8][C:9]2[CH:14]=[CH:13][C:12]([CH3:15])=[CH:11][CH:10]=2)=[CH:4][CH:3]=1.C(CC(=O)C)(=O)C>>[CH3:1][C:2]1[CH:3]=[CH:4][C:5]2[O:8][C:9]3[CH:14]=[CH:13][C:12]([CH3:15])=[CH:11][C:10]=3[C:6]=2[CH:7]=1

Participants

Reactant 2

HCID 31261Acetylacetone

HCID 74098Benzene, 1,1'-oxybis[4-methyl-

Product 1

HCID 6393192,8-Dimethyldibenzofuran

Procedure

By treating 4,4'-dimethyldiphenyl ether under the same reaction conditions as in Example 2 except that acetylacetone was not added, 1.3 g (6.8 m. moles) of 2.8-dimethyldibenzofuran was obtained and 0.36 g (0.9 m. mole) of the dimer also obtained.

Workup

additionwas not added

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-6939d1c0e22f4f0fa0a64e7ac070bb3c
Source dataset: uspto-grants-1977_08
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US04042603

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