4-Nitrobenzaldehyde → tert-butyl 4-nitrobenzoate

HRID 1856386Notes

Reaction equation

[N+:1]([C:4]1[CH:11]=[CH:10][C:7]([CH:8]=[O:9])=[CH:6][CH:5]=1)([O-:3])=[O:2].[C:12]([OH:16])([CH3:15])([CH3:14])[CH3:13]>>[N+:1]([C:4]1[CH:5]=[CH:6][C:7]([C:8]([O:16][C:12]([CH3:15])([CH3:14])[CH3:13])=[O:9])=[CH:10][CH:11]=1)([O-:3])=[O:2]

Participants

Reactant 2

HCID 5414-Nitrobenzaldehyde

HCID 6386tert-Butanol

Product 1

HCID 283005tert-butyl 4-nitrobenzoate

Procedure

An additional trial performed under the same operating conditions but in tert-butanol with another nitrated aromatic aldehyde i.e. 4-nitrobenzaldehyde provided tert-butyl 4-nitro-benzoate in a yield of only 13.5%.

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-1f216e480db240e29bcd547c4ec7bc83
Source dataset: uspto-grants-1980_08
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US04219482

Reaction notes

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