Sulfuric Acid → Pentanoic acid, 5-hydroxy-, methyl ester

Temperature

-20 °C

To prepare 2, freshly distilled δ-valerolactone (1) (856 mg) in methanol (17 ml) was treated with concentrated H2SO4 (100 μl) and refluxed for 12 hours. The solution was cooled to −20° C., treated with NaHCO3 (80 mg), and stirred for 10 minutes. The reaction mixture was filtered and the solvent was removed in vacuum. The residue was taken up in DCM (10 ml), dried over Na2SO4, filtered, and concentrated in vacuum to give methyl 5-hydroxypentanoate (2) (Huckstep et al., Synthesis 10:881-82 (1982), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety) (1071 mg, 94%) as a colorless oil, which was used directly without any further purification. 1H NMR (400 MHz, acetone-d6): δ 1.55 (2H, m), 1.68 (2H, m), 2.35 (2H, t, J=7.4 Hz), 3.57 (2H, m), 3.64 (3H, s); 13C NMR (100 MHz, acetone-d6): δ 22.2, 32.9, 34.1, 51.5, 61.9, 174.2. See FIGS. 75A-B.

1. temperaturerefluxed for 12 hours
2. filtrationThe reaction mixture was filtered
3. customthe solvent was removed in vacuum
4. dry with materialdried over Na2SO4
5. filtrationfiltered
6. concentrationconcentrated in vacuum

ORD record

ord-e5a5bd4601bb4c2ea20dc41cfc76a152

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2016_09

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US09445596B2