Acetic Anhydride → 1-(2-Chlorophenyl)propan-2-one

HRID 1059007Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1059007 reaction equation
[Cl:1][C:2]1C=[C:4](CC(O)=O)[CH:5]=[CH:6][CH:7]=1.C(O[C:16](=[O:18])[CH3:17])(=O)C.[C:19]([O-])(=O)[CH3:20].[Na+]>O.Cl>[Cl:1][C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][C:19]=1[CH2:20][C:16](=[O:18])[CH3:17]

Participants

6

Procedure

The general pathway for making compounds of Formula (I) is outlined above. In accordance with the general pathway, approximately 17 g of 0.1 mol 3-Chlorophenylacetic acid was refluxed in acetic anhydride (75 ml, 0.8 mol) and sodium acetate (8.2 g., 0.1 mol) for 2 days. The resulting mixture was allowed to cool to room temperature and diluted with water (150 ml). The organic layer was then refluxed in concentrated HCl (80 ml) for one hour, cooled to room temperature and then 200 ml of water was added to the mixture. The mixture was extracted with ethyl ether to produce 2-chlorphenyl acetone at about a 41% yield. The intermediate product had a boiling point of about 76° C.

Workup

  1. temperaturecooled to room temperature
  2. extractionThe mixture was extracted with ethyl ether

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-a10eab10f65f4443a6b9a4b0b36bfd4c
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2003_02
Patent number
US06518314B1

Reaction notes

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