Methanol → 2-(4-Bromo-2-fluorophenyl)acetic acid

HRID 1049988Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1049988 reaction equation
[OH-:1].[Na+].[Br:3][C:4]1[CH:9]=[CH:8][C:7]([CH2:10][C:11]#N)=[C:6]([F:13])[CH:5]=1.C[OH:15]>>[Br:3][C:4]1[CH:9]=[CH:8][C:7]([CH2:10][C:11]([OH:15])=[O:1])=[C:6]([F:13])[CH:5]=1

Participants

4

Conditions

Temperature
100 °C

Procedure

NaOH (56.2 mL, 112 mmol) was added to a solution of 2-(4-bromo-2-fluorophenyl)acetonitrile (4.01 g, 18.74 mmol) in MeOH (30 mL). The mixture was stirred at 100° C. for 12 h. The mixture was cooled to rt. Then the solution was concentrated and distributed between EA and saturated NaHCO3 solution. The combined organic extract was washed with brine, dried over MgSO4, filtered and concentrated. The resulting 2-(4-bromo-2-fluorophenyl)acetic acid (4.13 g, 17.72 mmol, 95.0% yield) was used to next step without further purification. TLC (PE/EA=1/1, Rf=0.4): 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3) δ 7.22-7.31 (m, 2H), 7.13 (t, J=8.05 Hz, 1H), 3.67 (s, 2H); ES-LCMS m/z 232.9 (M+H).

Workup

  1. temperatureThe mixture was cooled to rt
  2. concentrationThen the solution was concentrated
  3. extractionThe combined organic extract
  4. washwas washed with brine
  5. dry with materialdried over MgSO4
  6. filtrationfiltered
  7. concentrationconcentrated

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-a068d55a20f547deb87b45f5305f52e7
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2016_07
Patent number
US09382238B2

Reaction notes

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