Potassium Iodide → N-[(4,4-diphenyl)but-3-enyl]-N-ethylglycine ethyl ester

Participants

Reaction Steps

A mixture of 0.158 g (0.5 mmol) of N-[(4,4-diphenyl)but-3-enyl]glycine ethyl ester (Compound A26), 0.234 g (2.1 mmol) bromoethane, 0.281 g (2 mmol) potassium carbonate and 0.068 g (0.4 mmol) potassium iodide was stirred under argon for 20 hours at room temperature. The reaction mixture was filtered, the solvent evaporated, and the residue chromatographed on a silica gel column with 20% ethyl acetate in hexanes to yield 0.112 g (66%) N-[(4,4-diphenyl)but-3-enyl]-N-ethylglycine ethyl ester (Compound A16) as an oil. NMR spectra showed: 1H NMR (CDCl3, 300 MHz) 7.60–7.00 (m, 10 H), 6.09 (t, 1 H), 4.13 (q. 2 H), 3.27 (s, 2 H), 2.72 (t, 2 H), 2.61 (q, 2 H), 2.28 (dt, 2 H), 1.23 (t, 3 H), 1.01 (t, 3 H); 13C NMR (CDCl3, 75 MHz) 171.77, 142.96, 142.86, 140.33, 130.09, 128.49, 128.35, 127.48, 127.27, 127.19, 60.58, 54.90, 53.98, 48.20, 28.19, 14.57, 12.70.

Provenance & Evidence