Diethyl Ether → 5-(Diethoxymethyl)thiophene-3-carbaldehyde

HRID 1524725Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1524725 reaction equation
Br[C:2]1[CH:3]=[C:4]([CH:7]([O:11][CH2:12][CH3:13])[O:8][CH2:9][CH3:10])[S:5][CH:6]=1.C[CH2:15][O:16]CC.C([Li])CCC.CN(C=O)C>CCCCCC>[CH2:9]([O:8][CH:7]([O:11][CH2:12][CH3:13])[C:4]1[S:5][CH:6]=[C:2]([CH:15]=[O:16])[CH:3]=1)[CH3:10]

Participants

6

Conditions

Temperature
-78 °C

Procedure

A solution of 4-bromo-2-(diethoxymethyl)thiophene (500 mg, 0.002 mol) in ether (5 mL, 0.05 mol) was cooled at −78° C. To this solution, 2.5 M n-butyllithium in hexane (0.83 mL) was added dropwise. The reaction was stirred at −78° C. for 1 hour. To the reaction was added DMF (0.4 g, 0.006 mol) at −78° C. and the mixture was stirred for 30 minutes. The reaction was quenched with water and extracted with ethyl acetate. The combined organic layers were washed with saturated sodium chloride, dried over magnesium sulfate, filtered and concentrated. The crude residue was purified by flash column chromatography to yield the 5-(diethoxymethyl)thiophene-3-carbaldehyde as an oil (170 mg, 42.0%). By 1H NMR two different regioisomers of aldehydes were formed and were not separated; (note: NMR shifts are for the major isomer only)1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3): δ 9.85 (s, 1H), 8.05, 7.7 (s, 1H), 7.45, 7.15 (s, 1H), 5.7 (s, 1H), 3.65 (m, 2H), 1.25 (m, 2H).

Workup

  1. stirringthe mixture was stirred for 30 minutes
  2. customThe reaction was quenched with water
  3. extractionextracted with ethyl acetate
  4. washThe combined organic layers were washed with saturated sodium chloride
  5. dry with materialdried over magnesium sulfate
  6. filtrationfiltered
  7. concentrationconcentrated
  8. customThe crude residue was purified by flash column chromatography

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-141b2e9b71fc4a5ab7d150a3853d3ed6
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2015_07
Patent number
US09079912B2

Reaction notes

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