Hydroxyphenylacetic acid → Ethyl 4-hydroxyphenylacetate

HRID 1608453Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1608453 reaction equation
[OH:1][C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][C:5]([CH2:8][C:9]([OH:11])=[O:10])=[CH:4][CH:3]=1.S(=O)(=O)(O)O.[CH2:17](O)[CH3:18]>>[OH:1][C:2]1[CH:3]=[CH:4][C:5]([CH2:8][C:9]([O:11][CH2:17][CH3:18])=[O:10])=[CH:6][CH:7]=1

Participants

4

Reactant 3

HCID 127Hydroxyphenylacetic acidHCID 702EthanolHCID 1118Sulfuric Acid

Product 1

HCID 28310Ethyl 4-hydroxyphenylacetate

Procedure

4-Hydroxyphenylacetic acid (50.0 g) is dissolved in ethanol (400 ml) and thereto is added conc. sulfuric acid (0.5 ml). The mixture is refluxed with stirring, and ethanol is distilled off to give ethyl 4-hydroxyphenylacetate (60 g).

Workup

  1. temperatureThe mixture is refluxed
  2. distillationethanol is distilled off

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-d18aadc783384e2ca1419fc1fa9b4157
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1995_03
Patent number
US05395553

Reaction notes

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