Sulfuric Acid → 7-Tert-butyl-8-hydroxy-5-methyl-1,2,3,4,4a,9a-hexahydro-9-fluorenone

HRID 2051416Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 2051416 reaction equation
[OH:1][C:2]1[CH:3]=[CH:4][C:5]([CH3:16])=[C:6]2[C:14]=1[C:13](=[O:15])[CH:12]1[CH:7]2[CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH2:11]1.S(=O)(=O)(O)O.[C:22](NC(N)=O)([CH3:25])([CH3:24])[CH3:23]>O>[C:22]([C:3]1[C:2]([OH:1])=[C:14]2[C:6]([CH:7]3[CH:12]([C:13]2=[O:15])[CH2:11][CH2:10][CH2:9][CH2:8]3)=[C:5]([CH3:16])[CH:4]=1)([CH3:25])([CH3:24])[CH3:23]

Participants

5

Conditions

Temperature
90 °C

Procedure

To 20 g of 8-hydroxy-5-methyl-1,2,3,4,4a,9a-hexahydro-9-fluorenone were added 200 ml of water and 200 ml of concentrated sulfuric acid and the mixture was stirred with heating at 90° C. At the same temperature, thereto was gradually added 53.71 g of N-tert-butylurea, followed by stirring with heating for 14 hours. Then, 10 g of N-tert-butylurea was further added, followed by further stirring at 90° C. for 5 hours. The reaction mixture was poured into 2 liters of water and extracted with chloroform. The chloroform layer was washed with saturated aqueous sodium chloride solution and then dried with magnesium sulfate. The solvent was distilled off and the residue was purified by a silica gel column chromatography (eluent: ethyl acetate:n-hexane=1:10) and thereafter recrystallized from n-hexane to obtain 19.67 g of 7-tert-butyl-8-hydroxy-5-methyl-1,2,3,4,4a,9a-hexahydro-9-fluorenone.

Workup

  1. stirringby stirring
  2. temperaturewith heating for 14 hours
  3. stirringby further stirring at 90° C. for 5 hours
  4. extractionextracted with chloroform
  5. washThe chloroform layer was washed with saturated aqueous sodium chloride solution
  6. dry with materialdried with magnesium sulfate
  7. distillationThe solvent was distilled off
  8. customthe residue was purified by a silica gel column chromatography (eluent: ethyl acetate:n-hexane=1:10)
  9. customrecrystallized from n-hexane

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-892b904f52514e50aaf76aca752e45cf
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1991_05
Patent number
US05017724

Reaction notes

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