Water → HCID 14022225, compound

Temperature

-78 °C

To a stirred suspension of cyclopentyltriphenylphosphonium bromide (10.0 g, 23.8 mmol) in TMF (60 mL) was added dropwise n-BuLi (10.2 mL, 2.5 M solution in hexanes, 23.8 mmol) at 0° C. under N2. The resulting solution was stirred at this temperature for 30 min and cooled to −78 ° C. A solution of 6-oxo-hexanoic acid methyl ester (3.33 g, 23.1 mmol) in THF (6 mL) was added quickly. The resulting mixture was then allowed to warm to room temperature and stirred overnight. Water (30 mL) was added. The aqueous phase was extracted with hexane. The combined organic phases were washed with saturated aqueous NH4Cl and brine and dried. Concentration and purification of the residue by flash chromatography on silica gel (hexane:ethyl acetate, 10:1) afforded 6-cyclopentylidene-hexanoic acid methyl ester (3.15 g, 70%) as a colorless oil: 1H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3) δ 5.20 (1H, m), 3.64 (3H, s), 2.29 (2H, m), 2.16 (4H, m), 1.96 (2H, m), 1.62 (6H, m), 1.35 (2H, m); 13C NMR (75 MHz, CDCl3) δ 174.26, 143.54, 119.65, 51.66, 34.29, 33.79, 29.44, 28.86, 26.69, 26.61, 24.91.

1. temperatureto warm to room temperature
2. stirringstirred overnight
3. extractionThe aqueous phase was extracted with hexane
4. washThe combined organic phases were washed with saturated aqueous NH4Cl and brine
5. customdried
6. concentrationConcentration and purification of the residue by flash chromatography on silica gel (hexane:ethyl acetate, 10:1)

ORD record

ord-f79367d3b22246648a2444da9ffbe6c6

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2006_08

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US07091357B2