4-Fluoromandelic acid → 1-(4-Fluorophenyl)ethane-1,2-diol

HRID 1364465Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1364465 reaction equation
[F:1][C:2]1[CH:12]=[CH:11][C:5]([CH:6]([OH:10])[C:7](O)=[O:8])=[CH:4][CH:3]=1.[H-].[Al+3].[Li+].[H-].[H-].[H-]>O1CCCC1>[F:1][C:2]1[CH:3]=[CH:4][C:5]([CH:6]([OH:10])[CH2:7][OH:8])=[CH:11][CH:12]=1

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 980684-Fluoromandelic acidHCID 21226445Aluminium lithium hydride

Product 1

HCID 114125091-(4-Fluorophenyl)ethane-1,2-diolYield 94.8%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 8028TetrahydrofuranSolvent

Conditions

Temperature
0 °C

Procedure

To a stirred solution of 4-fluoromandelic acid (1.0 g, 5.88 mmol) in tetrahydrofuran was added lithium aluminum hydride (0.47 g, 12.34 mmol). The reaction mixture was refluxed for 1.5 hours. The reaction mixture was cooled (0° C.), quenched with sat. ammonium chloride solution, filtered, concentrated to yield 0.87 g of 1-(4-fluorophenyl)ethane-1,2-diol.

Workup

  1. temperatureThe reaction mixture was refluxed for 1.5 hours
  2. customquenched with sat. ammonium chloride solution
  3. filtrationfiltered
  4. concentrationconcentrated

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-103ede0fbc534f30a4002d2d742b0de8
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2011_02
Patent number
US07888366B2

Reaction notes

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