Hydrochloric Acid → 2-Phenylpropylamine hydrochloride

HRID 2085441Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 2085441 reaction equation
O.[C:2]1([CH:8]([CH3:11])[C:9]#[N:10])[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=1.[ClH:12].[H][H]>C(O)C>[ClH:12].[C:2]1([CH:8]([CH3:11])[CH2:9][NH2:10])[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][CH:3]=1

Participants

6

Conditions

Temperature
57 °C

Procedure

To an autoclave hydrogenation apparatus under nitrogen was charged water-wet 5% palladium on carbon (453 g), ethanol (6.36 L), 2-phenylpropionitrile (636 g, 4.85 moles) and finally concentrated (12M) hydrochloric acid (613 g, 5.6 mole). The mixture was stirred rapidly and pressurized to 75-78 psi with hydrogen. The mixture was then heated to 50-64° C. for 3 hours. 1H NMR analysis of an aliquot showed less than 5% starting material. The reaction mixture was depressurized and filtered to afford two lots of filtrate that were concentrated under reduced pressure to ˜400 mL each. To each lot was added methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) (2.2 L each) and the precipitated solids were allowed to stir overnight. Each lot was filtered and the collected solids were each washed with fresh MTBE (100 mL) and dried overnight. The lots were combined to afford 2-phenyl-1-propylamine HCl (634.4 9, 76.2%) as a white powder.

Workup

  1. filtrationfiltered
  2. customto afford two lots of filtrate that
  3. concentrationwere concentrated under reduced pressure to ˜400 mL each
  4. additionTo each lot was added methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) (2.2 L each)
  5. stirringto stir overnight
  6. filtrationEach lot was filtered
  7. washeach washed with fresh MTBE (100 mL)
  8. customdried overnight

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-41b7f399768c4d369471972e5a705af5
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2004_04
Patent number
US06720357B2

Reaction notes

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