Methacrylic Acid → Oxolan-2-yl 2-methylprop-2-enoate

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Methacrylic acid (86 g, 1 mol) was cooled to 15° C., and camphorsulfonic acid (4.6 g, 0.02 mol) was added thereto. 2-Dihydrofuran (71 g, 1 mol, 1.0 equivalents) was added dropwise to this solution. After stirring for 1 hour, saturated sodium bicarbonate (500 mL) was added, and the mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate (500 mL) and dried with magnesium sulfate; following this insoluble material was filtered, concentration under vacuum was then carried out at no greater than 40° C., and a yellow oily residue was distilled under vacuum, thus giving 125 g of tetrahydrofuran-2-yl methacrylate (MATHF) (yield 80%) as a colorless oily material, this being a fraction with a boiling point (bp.) of 54° C. to 56° C./3.5 mmHg.

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