Ethyl 4-benzylbenzoate → 4-(Phenylmethyl)benzenemethanol

HRID 1654699Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1654699 reaction equation
[CH2:1]([C:8]1[CH:18]=[CH:17][C:11]([C:12](OCC)=[O:13])=[CH:10][CH:9]=1)[C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=1.[H-].[Al+3].[Li+].[H-].[H-].[H-]>CCOCC>[CH2:1]([C:8]1[CH:9]=[CH:10][C:11]([CH2:12][OH:13])=[CH:17][CH:18]=1)[C:2]1[CH:3]=[CH:4][CH:5]=[CH:6][CH:7]=1

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 11345471Ethyl 4-benzylbenzoateHCID 21226445Aluminium lithium hydride

Product 1

HCID 5976144-(Phenylmethyl)benzenemethanolYield 94.6%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 3283Diethyl EtherSolvent

Procedure

By using ethyl 4-benzylbenzoate (232.55 g), lithium aluminium hydride (23.00 g) and ether (1.3 l), there was prepared the title compound (181.47 g).

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-d8d2e1bb8377469988edf96514d67bb4
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1995_04
Patent number
US05409928

Reaction notes

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