Diethanolamine → 2-Chloro-1-phenylethanol

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2-Chloroacetophenone (3 g., 19.4 mmol) was treated with (−) DIP-chloride (6.7 g., 20.9 mmol) in anhydrous THF (20 mL) at dry-ice bath temperature and left overnight. The temperature was raised to room temperature and THF was removed in vacuo. The residue was dissolved in ether (100 mL). The diethanolamine (4.58 g., 42.6 mmol) was added and the mixture stirred at room temperature for 5 hrs. The separated solid was filtered and the filtered cake was washed with hexane (40 mL) and ether (30 mL). The combined filtrates were evaporated to dryness to give 6.36 g of crude product. This was purified by silica gel column chromatography using 1% ether and petroleum ether 1.71 g (56%) of the desired product was obtained as an oil.

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