Hydroxyphenylacetic acid → HCID 53677170, compound

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Reaction Steps

2.9 kg of p-hydroxyphenylacetic acid and 1.95 kg of (+)-menthol are heated to boiling for 16 hours with 40 g of p-toluenesulphonic acid in 25 l of toluene; about 300 ml of water are separated in this process. The toluene solution is washed with 10 l of saturated NaHCO3 solution and 10 l of water and concentrated to dryness in vacuo. The title compound is obtained as 5.4 kg of oily residue (98-100% of theory) having a purity of 91.8% (HPLC surface area percentage). For analytical purposes, the (+)-menthylhydroxyphenylacetate was recrystallised twice from n-hexane.

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