4-Nitrophenol → Ethyl 2-(4-nitrophenoxy)acetate

HRID 1769125Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1769125 reaction equation
[N+:1]([C:4]1[CH:9]=[CH:8][C:7]([OH:10])=[CH:6][CH:5]=1)([O-:3])=[O:2].Cl[CH2:12][C:13]([O:15][CH2:16][CH3:17])=[O:14].C(=O)([O-])[O-].[K+].[K+]>[I-].[K+].C(#N)C>[N+:1]([C:4]1[CH:9]=[CH:8][C:7]([O:10][CH2:12][C:13]([O:15][CH2:16][CH3:17])=[O:14])=[CH:6][CH:5]=1)([O-:3])=[O:2]

Participants

6

Reactant 3

HCID 9804-NitrophenolHCID 7751Ethyl chloroacetateHCID 11430Potassium Carbonate

Product 1

HCID 308938Ethyl 2-(4-nitrophenoxy)acetateYield 73.3%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 2

HCID 4875Potassium IodideCatalystHCID 6342AcetonitrileSolvent

Procedure

The product was made by procedures which are well known in the art, that is, by alkylation of 4-nitrophenol (29.2 g, 0.21 mol) with ethyl chloroacetate (24.5 g, 0.20 mole) in the presence of potassium carbonate (30.4 g, 0.22 mol), potassium iodide (0.5 g) and acetonitrile (150 mL) to afford ethyl 4-nitrophenoxyacetate (33 g, 73.3%), m.p. 75°-76° C. after recrystallization from tert-butylmethyl ether; hydrogenation of the latter (22.5 g) at 50 psi in ethyl acetate (200 mL) in the presence of 10% palladium on Carbon (0.3 g) to afford 22.5 g (97%) of ethyl 4-aminophenoxyacetate, m.p. 157°-158° C.; and treatment of the latter (18.52 g, 0.08 mol) with methanesulfonyl chloride (12.6 g, 0.11 mol) in CH2Cl2 (250 mL) in the presence of pyridine (35 mL) to afford N-[4-(ethoxycarbonylmethoxy)phenyl]methanesulfonamide, 20.06 g (92%), m.p. 77.3°-78.5° C. after recrystallization from ethanol.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-64e979e65da342589686c5aa08bd0f77
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1995_01
Patent number
US05380721

Reaction notes

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