Diphenylmethane → HCID 21436105, compound

HRID 2397629Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 2397629 reaction equation
[C:1]1([CH2:7][C:8]2[CH:13]=[CH:12][CH:11]=[CH:10][CH:9]=2)[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][CH:2]=1.[CH2:14]([O:16][CH2:17][CH2:18]Br)[CH3:15]>>[C:1]1([CH:7]([C:8]2[CH:9]=[CH:10][CH:11]=[CH:12][CH:13]=2)[CH2:15][CH2:14][O:16][CH2:17][CH3:18])[CH:6]=[CH:5][CH:4]=[CH:3][CH:2]=1

Participants

3

Procedure

According to a second process disclosed by Sperber (loc. cit.) diphenylmethane is reacted with 2-bromoethyl ethyl ether to yield 3,3-diphenyl-1-ethoxypropane. Alkylation of 3,3-diphenyl-1-ethoxypropane with 2-dimethylaminoethyl chloride yielded 5-ethoxy-3,3-diphenyl-N,N-dimethylamylamine; cleavage of the ethoxy group gave 5-hydroxy-3,3-diphenyl-N,N-dimethylamylamine hydrobromide, which was reacted with thionyl chloride to give 4,4-diphenyl-1,1-dimethylpiperidinium chloride, from which sublimation in vacuo yielded 1-methyl-4,4-diphenylpiperidine. This synthesis includes 5 reaction steps and provides an overall maximum yield of about 23 percent of theory. The availability of this synthesis for the preparation of homologues of 1-methyl-4,4-diphenylpiperidine, e.g. of 1-ethyl-4,4-diphenylpiperidine or 1-isopropyl-4,4-diphenylpiperidine has to be regarded as doubtful.

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-fe1d01cde9fc4eadb97297ba2eb12f41
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1977_05
Patent number
US04022786

Reaction notes

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