3-Ethyl-4-methyl-2,5-dihydrofuran-2,5-dione → HCID 57094154, compound

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Reaction Steps

5 g of 2-ethyl-3-methylmaleic anhydride, 7.3 g of 2-fluoro-4-chloro-5-isopropoxyaniline and 0.61 g of 4-dimethylaminopyridine are combined in 100 ml of xylene in a distillation apparatus and the solvent is slowly distilled off. After 5 hours, the reaction is complete. The xylene still present is removed under a water-jet vacuum. The dark residue is taken up in ethyl acetate and extracted with 2M hydrochloric acid, water, 10% sodium bicarbonate solution and lastly with saturated sodium chloride solution. After drying over sodium sulphate, the ethyl acetate is distilled off in a rotary evaporator and the residue is chromatographed over a column of silica gel with hexane:ethyl acetate 1:1. After evaporating the solvent, 5 g of the title compound are obtained in the form of a red oil having a refractive index of nD22 =1.5351.

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