Benzoic Acid → 6-Octen-1-ol, 3,6,7-trimethyl-

HRID 1527811Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1527811 reaction equation
[CH3:1][CH:2]([CH2:6][CH2:7][C:8]([CH3:12])=[C:9]([CH3:11])[CH3:10])[CH2:3][CH:4]=[O:5].C(O)(=O)C1C=CC=CC=1>CCCCCCC>[CH3:1][CH:2]([CH2:6][CH2:7][C:8]([CH3:12])=[C:9]([CH3:11])[CH3:10])[CH2:3][CH2:4][OH:5]

Participants

4

Conditions

Temperature
100 °C

Procedure

3,6,7-trimethyloct-6-enal (168 g, 1 mol.), heptane (168 g, 100 wt. %, technical grade), benzoic acid (3.05 g, 25 mmol, 2.5 mol.%) and (ethylenediamine)[1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane]ruthenium(bispivalate) (9.5 mg, 0.0125 mmol, 0.00125 mol.%) were loaded altogether in a 11 autoclave equipped with a mechanical stirring device. Sealed autoclave was then purged under stirring with nitrogen (3 times 5 bars) and hydrogen (3 times 5 bars) before being pressurized to 50 bars hydrogen. It was then heated to 100° C. and hydrogen pressure was maintained to 50 bars during all the reaction to afford desired product with complete selectivity. Upon reaction completion (checked by both hydrogen consumption and GC), autoclave was cooled down to 25° C. It was then depressurized and purged with nitrogen (3 times 5 bars) and reaction mixture was then transferred to a round-bottomed flask and solvent was removed under vacuum. After flash distillation, pure 3,6,7-trimethyloct-6-en-1-ol was obtained in 99% yield.

Workup

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Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-8872bb39d3004d869d6e33b58cd1a453
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2015_07
Patent number
US09090534B2

Reaction notes

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