Acetone → 4-Pyridin-4-ylbutanal

Temperature

-78 °C

Oxalyl chloride (1.45 mL of a 2M solution in dry methylene chloride) was placed in an oven-dried flask and cooled to −78° C. using a dry ice and acetone cooling bath and a solution of DMSO (0.413 mL) in dry methylene chloride (1 mL) added drop by drop to the oxalyl chloride over 3 minutes and stirred for a further 3 minutes. A solution of 4-(4-pyridyl)-butan-1-ol (400 mg) in dry methylene chloride (5 mL) was added to the reaction flask over approx. 3 minutes and the reaction stirred for 15 minutes. Anhydrous triethylamine (2.03 mL) was added and the reaction mixture stirred for another 2 hours during which time the cold bath had warmed up to room temperature. The reaction was quenched by the addition of saturated brine and then partitioned with methylene chloride. The aqueous layer was discarded and the methylene chloride extract dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate powder, filtered and evaporated under reduced pressure to leave an oily residue. The product was isolated by column chromatography on silica gel using ethyl acetate as eluant (301 mg).

1. stirringthe reaction stirred for 15 minutes
2. stirringthe reaction mixture stirred for another 2 hours during which time the cold bath
3. temperaturehad warmed up to room temperature
4. customThe reaction was quenched by the addition of saturated brine
5. custompartitioned with methylene chloride
6. extractionthe methylene chloride extract
7. dry with materialdried over anhydrous sodium sulfate powder
8. filtrationfiltered
9. customevaporated under reduced pressure
10. customto leave an oily residue
11. customThe product was isolated by column chromatography on silica gel

ORD record

ord-921d88ef012649e8814d3c2fdb2f0152

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2001_03

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US06200957B1