Potassium Cyanide → 2,5-Dichlorobenzyl cyanide

Temperature

80 °C

A mixture of 2,5-dichlorobenzyl bromide (5.4 g, 22.5 mmol) in 16 mL of ethanol and potassium cyanide (1.63 g, 25 mmol) in 4 mL of water was heated at 80° C. overnight, then cooled, and the solids were filtered and washed with ethanol to give 3.5 g of 2,5-dichlorophenylacetonitrile as a white powder melting at 89-91° C. The nitrile was suspended in 20 red, of ethanol, and 20 mL of a 25% aqueous NaOH solution was added. The mixture was heated in a CEM Explore™ microwave reactor at 140° C. for 30 minutes, then cooled, poured into ice water and acidified to pH 1 with concentrated HCl to give a precipitate. The precipitate was filtered, washed with water and dried in a vacuum oven at 90° C. for 5 h to give the title compound as a white powder.

1. temperaturecooled
2. filtrationthe solids were filtered
3. washwashed with ethanol

ORD record

ord-1650e19846b54c33875d992443f0bb64

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2013_11

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US08586611B2