Sodium Cyanide → 2-(4-Bromo-3-fluorophenyl)acetonitrile

HRID 1444848Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1444848 reaction equation
[Br:1][C:2]1[CH:9]=[CH:8][C:5]([CH2:6]Br)=[CH:4][C:3]=1[F:10].[C-:11]#[N:12].[Na+]>C(O)C>[Br:1][C:2]1[CH:9]=[CH:8][C:5]([CH2:6][C:11]#[N:12])=[CH:4][C:3]=1[F:10]

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 8929Sodium CyanideHCID 116661761-Bromo-4-(bromomethyl)-2-fluorobenzene

Product 1

HCID 116009532-(4-Bromo-3-fluorophenyl)acetonitrileYield 155.7%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 702EthanolSolvent

Procedure

A solution of 4-bromo-3-fluorobenzyl bromide (12.2 g, 0.03 moles) in ethanol (100 ml) is added with NaCN (2 g, 0.04 moles) and refluxed for 2 hours. The mixture is concentrated under vacuum; the resulting residue is taken up with water, then extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic phase is washed with brine, dried over sodium sulfate and concentrated under vacuum to give a dark oil (10 g), which is subjected to chromatography on a silica gel column (150 g), eluting with hexane:ethyl ether 7:3, to afford the product in the solid form.

Workup

  1. temperaturerefluxed for 2 hours
  2. concentrationThe mixture is concentrated under vacuum
  3. extractionextracted with ethyl acetate
  4. washThe organic phase is washed with brine
  5. dry with materialdried over sodium sulfate
  6. concentrationconcentrated under vacuum

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-15074058e8c64594871f4e432909e2e3
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2010_02
Patent number
US07662995B2

Reaction notes

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