Ethylene Glycol → 6-(1-Ethylenedioxy-4-chlorobutyl)-3,4-dihydrocarbostyril

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10 Grams (39.7 mM) of 6-(4-chlorobutyryl)-3,4-dihydrocarbostyril was dissolved in 300 ml of benzene, then to this solution was added 7.4 g (120 mM) of ethylene glycol and 300 mg of p-toluenesulfonic acid, and the whole mixture was refluxed by heating under dehydrating in Dean-Stark extractor for 6 hours. The reaction mixture was cooled and neutralized with an aqueous solution saturated with sodium hydrogen carbonate, then extracted with chloroform. The chloroform extract was washed with water then dried with anhydrous magnesium sulfate, then concentrated by removing the solvent by evaporation. The residue thus obtained was purified by means of a silica-gel column chromatography (eluent: chloroform:methanol=40:1) to yield 10.5 g of 6-(1-ethylenedioxy-4-chlorobutyl)-3,4-dihydrocarbostyril.

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