Hydroquinone → HCID 178460460, compound

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(From Yu et al., Macromolecules 2008, 41, 3389-3392.) 11-Bromoundecanol (10.00 g, 40 mmol) was dissolved in 40 ml of dry tetrahydrofuran (THF) in a two-necked round bottom flask. The flask was cooled in an ice-bath and triethylamine (5.13 mL, 40 mmol) in THF (40 mL) was added to the stirring solution. 2-methyl acryloyl chloride (4.08 g, 40 mmol) dissolved in 40 ml of THF was added dropwise to the stirring solution over a period of 15 min under N2 atmosphere. The mixture was further stirred for 2 days at room temperature and was filtered. The filtrate was washed with 2% sodium bicarbonate solution to remove any unreacted acid chloride and dried over anhydrous MgSO4. The dried solution was filtered and the filtrate was passed through a short column of neutral alumina, using CH2Cl2 as the light yellow liquid (yield 10.58 g, 87%). Under N2 atmosphere, a mixture of 11-bromoundecyl methylacrylate (6.08 g, 20 mmol) and 1-methylimidazole (1.64 g, 20 mmol) and a small amount of 1,4-dihydroxybenzene (inhibitor) was stirred at 40° C. for 48 h, and yielded a viscous liquid. The viscous liquid was purified by the precipitation method with diethyl ether to obtain yellow viscous liquid 1-(2-acryloyloxyundecyl)-3-methylimidazolium bromide. The viscous liquid was dried under vacuum at room temperature as the white waxy solid (5.73 g, 74%).

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