Dimethylformamide → 4-Fluoro-2,6-dimethoxybenzaldehyde

Phosphorous oxychloride (1.8 mL, 19.3 mmol) was added slowly to a well-stirred mixture of 1-fluoro-3,5-dimethoxy benzene (2.6 mL, 19.25 mmol) and N,N-dimethylformamide (2.5 mL, 20 mmol) while temperature was kept below −5° C. Stirring was continued at room temperature for 1.5 h and at 60° C. for another 2 h. Reaction completion was monitored by TLC. The reaction mixture was cooled and hydrolyzed with ice-water (60 mL). The resulting suspension was neutralized by addition of 5N NaOH, extracted with ethyl acetate (2×30 mL), the aqueous phase was adjusted to pH 10 by 5N NaOH and re-extracted with ethyl acetate (2×30 mL). The combined organic phases were washed with saturated aqueous NaHCO3 solution (30 mL) and brine (30 mL) and dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate. The dried solution was concentrated to get the crude product which on purification by column chromatography afforded a colorless pure product. Yield: 75%; white solid mp 79-81° C. 1H NMR: δ 3.85 (s, 3H, OCH3), 3.89 (s, 3H, OCH3), 6.25 (S, 2H, Ar—H), 10.24 (s, 1H, CHO). Anal. Calcd for C18H19FO5S: C, 58.70, H, 4.92. Found: C, 58.64, H, 4.91.

1. customwas kept below −5° C
2. customReaction completion
3. extractionextracted with ethyl acetate (2×30 mL)
4. extractionre-extracted with ethyl acetate (2×30 mL)
5. washThe combined organic phases were washed with saturated aqueous NaHCO3 solution (30 mL) and brine (30 mL)
6. dry with materialdried over anhydrous sodium sulfate
7. concentrationThe dried solution was concentrated

ORD record

ord-67c5448669d24a06963e4ad422275e67

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2014_05

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US08735620B2