Acetic Acid → N-Phenyl-beta-alanine methyl ester

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Reaction Steps

A mixture of 20 ml of aniline, 22 ml of methyl acrylate and 2 ml of acetic acid is refluxed for 8 hours. After concentrating the reaction mixture under vacuum, the resulting oil is distilled off under reduced pressure (b.p.=132° C. at 333.3 Pa and then b.p.=110° C. at 6.66 Pa). The product obtained is taken up in hexane and the precipitate formed is filtered off by suction. 25 g of the expected product are obtained.

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