Hydrochloric Acid → N-[2-(chloromethyl)-4-cyanophenyl]-2,2,2-trifluoroacetamide

In a round-bottomed flask N-(4-cyano-2-methylphenyl)-2,2,2-trifluoroacetamide (Intermediate 1, 19.37 g, 85 mmol), sulfuryl dichloride (27.6 mL, 340 mmol) and diphenylperoxyanhydride (1.028 g, 4.24 mmol) were heated in carbon tetrachloride (210 mL) at 100° C. for 3 h. The mixture was cooled to room temperature and then the reaction mixture was poured into 2M HCl (350 mL). The organic layer was then collected and the solvent was removed to give N-[2-(chloromethyl)-4-cyanophenyl]-2,2,2-trifluoroacetamide as an orange oil, (25.54 g) which was used in the next step without further purification. This oil was added to triphenylphosphine (26.2 g, 100 mmol) and the mixture was heated in toluene (300 mL) at 110° C. for 3 h. The mixture was cooled to room temperature overnight and the precipitate was filtered and washed with small amounts of toluene and diethyl ether to give the title compound as an off-white solid (29.91 g);

1. customThe organic layer was then collected
2. customthe solvent was removed

ORD record

ord-518d1459d21d4a3e9251c33a24b0abf8

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2012_10

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US08283365B2