Chloroacetyl chloride → Benzenepropanoic acid, 4-(chloroacetyl)-, methyl ester

HRID 1262840Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1262840 reaction equation
[C:1]1([CH2:7][CH2:8][C:9]([O:11][CH3:12])=[O:10])[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][CH:2]=1.[Cl:13][CH2:14][C:15](Cl)=[O:16].[Cl-].[Al+3].[Cl-].[Cl-].C(OC(C)C)(C)C>ClCCl>[Cl:13][CH2:14][C:15]([C:4]1[CH:5]=[CH:6][C:1]([CH2:7][CH2:8][C:9]([O:11][CH3:12])=[O:10])=[CH:2][CH:3]=1)=[O:16]

Participants

6

Conditions

Temperature
0 °C

Procedure

A mixture of 50 g of methyl 3-phenylpropionate, 51.6 g of chloroacetyl chloride and 250 ml of dichloromethane was cooled to 0° C. Then at 0° to 10° C. with stirring, 122 g of aluminum chloride was added slowly, stirred at a room temperature for 2 hours and allowed to stand overnight. The reaction mixture was poured into an ice-concentrated hydrochloric acid and extracted with chloroform, then the chloroform layer was washed with water, dried and the chloroform was removed by distillation to obtain the residue, then isopropyl ether was added to the residue to effect crystallization. The crystals were collected by filtration, and recrystallized from ethanol to obtain 53.4 g of methyl 3-(4-chloroacetylphenyl)-propionate.

Workup

  1. stirringstirred at a room temperature for 2 hours
  2. extractionextracted with chloroform
  3. washthe chloroform layer was washed with water
  4. customdried
  5. customthe chloroform was removed by distillation
  6. customto obtain the residue
  7. customcrystallization
  8. filtrationThe crystals were collected by filtration
  9. customrecrystallized from ethanol

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-a1ecda2a867849f3b91361e9cb4512c0
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1984_06
Patent number
US04454130

Reaction notes

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