Guaiacol → HCID 10967048, compound

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Reaction Steps

Treatment of guaiacol (25.00 g, 0.201 mol) with allyl bromide (29.24 g, 0.242 mol) and potassium carbonate (83.50 g, 0.604 mol) followed by refluxing the resultant allyl ether in mesitylene generally according to the procedure described for Intermediate 8 afforded 2-allyl-6-methoxyphenol as a brown oil. Treatment of the phenol with potassium carbonate (83.5 g, 0.604 mol), benzyl bromide (36.19 g, 0.212 mol), and tetrabutylammonium iodide (7.42 g, 0.020 mol) generally according to the procedure described for Intermediate 1 gave 23.61 g (45%) of 1-allyl-2-(benzyloxy)-3-methoxybenzene as a pale yellow oil. Rf=0.71 (silica, ethyl acetate:hexanes 1:9); Anal. calcd. for C17H18O2: C, 80.28; H, 7.13. Found: C, 79.09; H, 6.93.

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