Nitric Acid → 2,6-Difluoro-4-nitrophenol

To a solution of 2,6-difluorophenol (2.00 g) in acetic acid (20 ml) was added dropwise 60% nitric acid (1.20 ml) in an ice bath and the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 1 hour. After pouring into iced water, the reaction mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate. The extract was washed with brine. The organic layer was dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, filtered and the filtrate concentrated in vacuo. The residue was purified by chromatography on a silica gel column using hexane/ethyl acetate=3/1→2/1 as an eluant to give the desired compound (1.37 g, yield 51%) as a pale yellow solid.

1. extractionthe reaction mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate
2. washThe extract was washed with brine
3. dry with materialThe organic layer was dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate
4. filtrationfiltered
5. concentrationthe filtrate concentrated in vacuo
6. customThe residue was purified by chromatography on a silica gel column

ORD record

ord-3a807b344480485e8a201e69c113e549

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2003_04

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US06555556B1