Hydrochloric Acid → 4-(3-Bromophenoxy)butanoic acid

HRID 1848967Notes

Reaction equation

[Br:1][C:2]1[CH:3]=[C:4]([CH:14]=[CH:15][CH:16]=1)[O:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][C:9]([O:11]CC)=[O:10].O.Cl>C1COCC1>[Br:1][C:2]1[CH:3]=[C:4]([CH:14]=[CH:15][CH:16]=1)[O:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][C:9]([OH:11])=[O:10]

Participants

Conditions

Temperature: 50 °C

Procedure

Ethyl 4-(3-bromophenoxy)butanoate was taken up in 100 mL THF and 50 mL water and treated with lithium hydroxide LiOH (hydrate, 4.9 g). The whole was heated at 50° C. for 2 days. The mixture was cooled to room temperature and acidified to pH 1 with 2N HCl. The aqueous was extracted with ethylacetate. The combined organics were washed with brine and dried over sodium sulfate to give crude 4-(3-Bromophenoxy)butanoic acid as a sticky solid. 1H NMR (DMSO-d6, 500 MHz) 7.24 (m, 1H), 7.13 (m, 1H), 7.11 (m, 1H), 6.95 (m, 1H), 3.99 (m, 2H), 2.37 (m, 2H), 1.94 (m, 2H).

Workup

temperatureThe mixture was cooled to room temperature
extractionThe aqueous was extracted with ethylacetate
washThe combined organics were washed with brine
dry with materialdried over sodium sulfate

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-bd4b893b11dc4b3abb82f2f817b9d849
Source dataset: uspto-grants-2015_02
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US08952043B2

Reaction notes

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