Ethyl o-cyanomethylcinnamate → Ethyl o-(cyanomethyl)hydrocinnamate

HRID 1391186Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1391186 reaction equation
[C:1]([CH2:3][C:4]1[CH:16]=[CH:15][CH:14]=[CH:13][C:5]=1[CH:6]=[CH:7][C:8]([O:10][CH2:11][CH3:12])=[O:9])#[N:2].[H][H]>C(O)C.[Pd]>[C:1]([CH2:3][C:4]1[CH:16]=[CH:15][CH:14]=[CH:13][C:5]=1[CH2:6][CH2:7][C:8]([O:10][CH2:11][CH3:12])=[O:9])#[N:2]

Participants

5

Procedure

Ethyl o-(cyanomethyl)cinnamate (75.1 g., 0.35 mole) is dissolved in ethanol (300 ml.) and hydrogenated at a pressure of b 1 atmosphere and room temperature over 2.5 g. of a 5% palladium on charcoal catalyst. When the theoretical amount of hydrogen (0.35 mole) has been absorbed, the catalyst is filtered off and the ethanol removed by distillation at reduced pressure to yield ethyl o-(cyanomethyl)hydrocinnamate.

Workup

  1. customhydrogenated at a pressure of b 1 atmosphere and room temperature over 2.5 g
  2. filtrationthe catalyst is filtered off
  3. customthe ethanol removed by distillation at reduced pressure

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-37c8f632e0384346928db0a3a61715e5
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1979_02
Patent number
US04140861

Reaction notes

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