Sulfuric Acid → isopropyl (2S, 3S)-2-methyl-3-hydroxybutanoate

HRID 2226362Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 2226362 reaction equation
Cl[C:2](Cl)(Cl)[C@@H:3]1[O:8][C:7](=[O:9])[C@@H:6]([CH3:10])[C@H:5]([CH3:11])[O:4]1.S(=O)(=O)(O)O.[CH3:19]C(O)C>O>[CH3:10][C@@H:6]([C@@H:5]([OH:4])[CH3:11])[C:7]([O:8][CH:3]([CH3:19])[CH3:2])=[O:9]

Participants

5

Procedure

To 1.0 g of (2S, 5S, 6S)-2-trichloromethyl-5,6-dimethyl-1,3-dioxan-4-one obtained by a procedure similar to Example 1-(7) were added 0.1 ml of concentrated sulfuric acid and 10 ml of 2-propanol, stirred at room temperature for one hour, and 20 ml of water was added followed by ether extraction. The ether phase was dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and the residue was subjected to distillation to give 0.4 g of isopropyl (2S, 3S)-2-methyl-3-hydroxybutanoate of the following formula. ##STR64##

Workup

  1. extractionfollowed by ether extraction
  2. dry with materialThe ether phase was dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate
  3. distillationthe residue was subjected to distillation

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-9ce792a71eaf4bc995b96240a2991426
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1994_09
Patent number
US05348870

Reaction notes

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