Methyl Ethyl Ketone → N,N'-di-sec-butylidene-4,4'-methylenebis(2,6-diethylbenzeneamine)

HRID 500031

Reaction equation

HRID 500031 reaction equation
[CH2:1]([C:13]1[CH:18]=[C:17]([CH2:19][CH3:20])[C:16]([NH2:21])=[C:15]([CH2:22][CH3:23])[CH:14]=1)[C:2]1[CH:7]=[C:6]([CH2:8][CH3:9])[C:5]([NH2:10])=[C:4]([CH2:11][CH3:12])[CH:3]=1.[CH2:24]([C:26]([CH3:28])=O)[CH3:25]>>[C:24](=[N:21][C:16]1[C:17]([CH2:19][CH3:20])=[CH:18][C:13]([CH2:1][C:2]2[CH:7]=[C:6]([CH2:8][CH3:9])[C:5]([N:10]=[C:1]([CH2:2][CH3:3])[CH3:13])=[C:4]([CH2:11][CH3:12])[CH:3]=2)=[CH:14][C:15]=1[CH2:22][CH3:23])([CH2:26][CH3:28])[CH3:25]

Participants

3

Conditions

Temperature
40 °C

Procedure

A two-liter three neck round bottom flask was equipped with a magnetic stirrer, a heating mantle, a thermocouple, a glass stopper and a Dean Stark trap fitted with a condenser. 4,4′-Methylenebis(2,6-diethylbenzeneamine) (310.5 g, 1.00 mol) and methyl ethyl ketone (450 mL, 350 g, 4.85 mol) were added to the flask. This mixture was stirred at 40° C. to dissolve the 4,4′-methylenebis(2,6-diethylbenzeneamine). Hexanes (300 mL) and Amberlyst-15 (15.54 g) were added to the flask. The mixture was heated to reflux, and water was removed as an azeotrope in the Dean Stark trap. Samples were periodically taken and analyzed by gas chromatography (GC). N,N′-di-sec-butylidene-4,4′-methylenebis(2,6-diethylbenzeneamine) was formed in 94.7% yield. GC results are summarized in Table 1; units for the diamine, monoimine, and diimine are GC area percent.

Workup

  1. customA two-liter three neck round bottom flask was equipped with a magnetic stirrer
  2. customa heating mantle, a thermocouple, a glass stopper and a Dean Stark trap fitted with a condenser
  3. temperatureThe mixture was heated
  4. temperatureto reflux
  5. customwater was removed as an azeotrope in the Dean Stark trap

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-4c11697783194dfba95f3cb4cd0298ef
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2010_08
Patent number
US07767858B2

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