Carbon Dioxide → 5-Ethyl-2-methoxybenzoic acid

n-Butyl lithium (2.5M in hexanes, 38.5 ml, 100.0 mmol) was added dropwise under a nitrogen atmosphere to a stirred solution of 4-ethylanisole (11.7 g, 86.0 mmol) and N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylenediamine (10 ml, 88.0 mmol) in anhydrous diethyl ether (100 ml) and the mixture was stirred and held at 30° C. for 16 hours. The mixture was cooled and poured slowly in to a mixture of excess solid carbon dioxide in anhydrous diethyl ether. Upon warming to room temperature the mixture was made basic by the addition of 2M sodium hydroxide, the aqueous layer was separated and acidified to pH 2 or below by the addition of concentrated hydrochloric acid. The mixture was extracted with diethyl ether, the organic layer separated and the solvent removed in vacuo to afford 5-ethyl-2-methoxybenzoic acid (5.7 g, 37%) as a pale yellow oil. 1H NMR (DMSO-d6) 12.50 (1H, br s), 7.48 (1H, d), 7.33 (1H, dd), 7.03 (1H, d), 2.56 (2H, q), 1.17 (3H, q). MS: [M+H]+ 181.

1. temperatureThe mixture was cooled
2. customthe aqueous layer was separated
3. additionacidified to pH 2 or below by the addition of concentrated hydrochloric acid
4. extractionThe mixture was extracted with diethyl ether
5. customthe organic layer separated
6. customthe solvent removed in vacuo

ORD record

ord-f0b4fb388f2c4f28adb9ce7424a4b008

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2010_07

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US07754725B2