Water → 1-(4-Chlorophenyl)-2-propen-1-one

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60 g (295.5 mmol) of 3-chloro-1-(4-chlorophenyl)propan-1-one were dissolved in 900 ml of acetonitrile. With ice bath cooling, 41.2 ml (295.5 mmol) of triethylamine were then slowly added dropwise to the solution (exothermal reaction). After the addition had ended, the reaction solution was stirred at room temperature for 4 h. About one liter of water, one liter of ethyl acetate and about 250 ml of saturated sodium chloride solution were then added to the reaction mixture. The phases were separated, the organic phase was then dried over magnesium sulphate and filtered and the filtrate was concentrated to dryness. The crude product obtained was purified by chromatography on silica gel (about 1.3 kg) (mobile phase cyclohexane/ethyl acetate 6:1). This gave 45 g of the target product (91% of theory).

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