Methanol → Methyl 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzoate

HRID 253437Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 253437 reaction equation
[Cl:1][C:2]1[CH:10]=[C:9]([F:11])[C:8]([F:12])=[CH:7][C:3]=1[C:4]([OH:6])=[O:5].S(=O)(=O)(O)O.O.[CH3:19]O>>[CH3:19][O:5][C:4](=[O:6])[C:3]1[CH:7]=[C:8]([F:12])[C:9]([F:11])=[CH:10][C:2]=1[Cl:1]

Participants

5

Reactant 4

HCID 887MethanolHCID 962WaterHCID 1118Sulfuric AcidHCID 7371712-Chloro-4,5-difluorobenzoic acid

Product 1

HCID 22149760Methyl 2-chloro-4,5-difluorobenzoate

Conditions

Temperature
60 °C

Procedure

To 2-chloro-4,5-difluoro-benzoic acid (118, 14.0 g, 0.0727 mol) in methanol (100 mL) was added sulfuric acid (concentrated, 98%, 2.00 mL, 0.0375 mol). The reaction was stirred at 60° C. for 48 hours. The reaction was poured into water and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer was dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and filtered. The filtrate was concentrated and purified by silica gel column chromatography eluting with 20% ethyl acetate in hexane to give a colorless oil (119, 13.0 g, 86.6%).

Workup

  1. extractionextracted with ethyl acetate
  2. dry with materialThe organic layer was dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate
  3. filtrationfiltered
  4. concentrationThe filtrate was concentrated
  5. custompurified by silica gel column chromatography
  6. washeluting with 20% ethyl acetate in hexane
  7. customto give a colorless oil (119, 13.0 g, 86.6%)

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-925aa11d6eaf48b1be1adb08a5e97b2f
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2011_01
Patent number
US07872018B2

Reaction notes

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