Hydrochloric Acid → 2-Naphthalenecarboxylic acid, 3-(phenylamino)-

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A mixture of 3-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid (Aldrich cat. # H4600-7) (376 g, 2.0 mol) and aniline (376 ml, 4.1 mol) was heated at 170° C. with stirring under nitrogen for 16 hours. The resulting mixture, when hot, was poured into 1N HCl (2.5 ml), heated to 100° C., and stirred at this temperature for 5 minutes. The mixture, when hot, was filtrated and the solid was washed with 0.2N HCl (600 ml). The wet material was boiled and mechanically stirred with 0.5N sodium carbonate solution (6.0 ml) for 10 minutes, cooled and filtered. The reddish filtrate was treated dropwise with 5N HCl with stirring to ~pH 7. The resulting yellow precipitate was collected, washed with small amount of water and crystallized from ethanol (400 ml) to give 3-anilino-2-naphthoic acid (36 g, 7%). Rf 0.6 (silica gel, EM Art. 5715, 20% methanol/chloroform). MS (EI): m/z 264 (M).

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