Hydrochloric Acid → HCID 23717474, compound

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Reaction Steps

Into a dried 1 L 3 neck round bottom flask fitted with a nitrogen inlet, dropping funnel, thermometer, mechanical stirring and nitrogen outlet is added chloroform (300 ml) and 7-methylhexadecanol (124 g, 0.484 mol), prepared as an intermediate in Example I. Chlorosulfonic acid (60 g, 0.509 mol) is slowly added to the stirred mixture while maintaining 25-30° C. temperature with a ice bath. Once HCl evolution has stopped (1 hr.) slowly add sodium methoxide (25% in methanol) while keeping temperature at 25-30° C. until an aliquot at 5% concentration in water maintains a pH of 10.5. To the mixture is added hot ethanol (55° C., 2 L). The mixture is vacuum filtered immediately. The filtrate is concentrated to a slurry on a rotary evaporator, cooled and then poured into 2 L of ethyl ether. The mixture is chilled to 5° C., at which point crystallization occurs, and vacuum filtered. The crystals are dried in a vacuum oven at 50° C. for 3 hrs. to obtain a white solid (136 g, 92% active by cat SO3 titration).

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