Benzyl formate → 9-Formyl-2,7-fluorenedicarboxylic acid dibenzyl ester

HRID 888697

Reaction equation

HRID 888697 reaction equation
[CH2:1]([O:8][C:9]([C:11]1[CH:23]=[CH:22][C:21]2[C:20]3[C:15](=[CH:16][C:17]([C:24]([O:26][CH2:27][C:28]4[CH:33]=[CH:32][CH:31]=[CH:30][CH:29]=4)=[O:25])=[CH:18][CH:19]=3)[CH2:14][C:13]=2[CH:12]=1)=[O:10])[C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=1.[CH:34](OCC1C=CC=CC=1)=[O:35].CC(C)([O-])C.[K+]>C1COCC1>[CH2:27]([O:26][C:24]([C:17]1[CH:18]=[CH:19][C:20]2[C:21]3[C:13](=[CH:12][C:11]([C:9]([O:8][CH2:1][C:2]4[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=4)=[O:10])=[CH:23][CH:22]=3)[CH:14]([CH:34]=[O:35])[C:15]=2[CH:16]=1)=[O:25])[C:28]1[CH:29]=[CH:30][CH:31]=[CH:32][CH:33]=1

Participants

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Reactant 3

HCID 7708Benzyl formateHCID 23665647Potassium tert-butoxideHCID 66910038Dibenzyl 9H-fluorene-2,7-dicarboxylate

Product 1

HCID 866097799-Formyl-2,7-fluorenedicarboxylic acid dibenzyl ester

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 8028TetrahydrofuranSolvent

Procedure

In a dry argon-purged flask, 2,7-fluorenedicarboxylic acid dibenzyl ester (3.0 g, 0.0065 mol) was dissolved in anh. THF (60 mL) at room temperature. Benzyl formate (4.2 mL, 0.035 mol, stored over anhydrous K2CO3) was added followed by addition of potassium tert-butoxide 95% (2.7 g, 0.023 mol). The reaction was stirred for three hours then the reaction was quenched with the addition of water and acidified with HCl to pH 2. The organic solvent was partially evaporated at reduced pressure. The product was twice extracted with ethyl acetate (600 mL then 200 mL). The combined organic layers were washed three times with brine, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and evaporated to dryness. The crude product was washed with hexanes and methanol (1.9 g, 60%). 1H-NMR (d6-DMSO): δ (ppm) 11.9 (s, ˜1H, formyl); 8.8 (s, 1H, Ar); 8.5 (s, 1H, Ar); 8.4 (s, 1H, Ar); 8.2 (m, 2H, Ar); 7.9 (m, 2H, Ar); 7.5-7.4 (m, 10H, Bz); 5.4 (s, 4H, Ar).

Workup

  1. customIn a dry argon-purged flask
  2. customthe reaction was quenched with the addition of water
  3. customThe organic solvent was partially evaporated at reduced pressure
  4. extractionThe product was twice extracted with ethyl acetate (600 mL
  5. washThe combined organic layers were washed three times with brine
  6. dry with materialdried over sodium sulfate
  7. filtrationfiltered
  8. customevaporated to dryness
  9. washThe crude product was washed with hexanes and methanol (1.9 g, 60%)

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-77a739a595a2433d8ab7232b73530fc6
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2012_08
Patent number
US08252275B2

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