Acetic Acid → Nadolol

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Subsequently Hauck in Canadian Letters Patent 1,041,544 attempted to separate the four optical cis isomers of 2,3-cis-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-S-[2-hydroxy-3-(tert-butylamino) propoxy]-2,3-naphthalenediol in order to determine the best of these isomers. The processes of manufacture (See pages 4, 5 and 6 of the Patent and example 4 at pages 18 and of the patent) employ water. Crystallization of isomer product is from chloroform. In Hauck's laboratory procedure resulting 1-(2,3-epoxypropoxy)-5,8-dihydronaphthalene is isolated and subsequently reacted with t-butylamine in a high pressure reactor. The resulting dl-1-(tert-butylamino)-3-(5,8-dihydronaphthyl)oxyl-2-propanol is then cis hydroxylated with wet acetic acid, silver iodide, and the resulting acetoxy iodide is hydrolysed with base and finally subjected to catalytic hydrogenation to afford crude Nadolol.

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