Acetic Anhydride → 1-[5-(Octadecyloxy)thiophen-2-yl]ethan-1-one

HRID 328377Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 328377 reaction equation
[CH2:1]([O:19][C:20]1[S:21][CH:22]=[CH:23][CH:24]=1)[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH2:11][CH2:12][CH2:13][CH2:14][CH2:15][CH2:16][CH2:17][CH3:18].[C:25](OC(=O)C)(=[O:27])[CH3:26].B(F)(F)F.CCOCC>>[C:25]([C:22]1[S:21][C:20]([O:19][CH2:1][CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH2:11][CH2:12][CH2:13][CH2:14][CH2:15][CH2:16][CH2:17][CH3:18])=[CH:24][CH:23]=1)(=[O:27])[CH3:26]

Participants

4

Conditions

Temperature
100 °C

Procedure

When in Example 2, 1-bromooctadecane is substituted for 1-bromohexadecane, 2-octadecyloxythiophene is obtained. A mixture of 35.3 g (0.1 mole) of 2-octadecyloxythiophene and 12.3 g (0.12 mole) of acetic anhydride is cooled in an ice bath. While rapidly stirring this mixture, 1.4 g of boron trifluoride etherate is added, and the mixture is heated to 100° C with stirring for 1 hour after which it is cooled to room temperature. Ice water is added, and the mixture is extracted with chloroform. The chloroform solution is evaporated to dryness under reduce pressure to give 2-acetyl-5-octadecyloxythiophene. In 500 ml of 10% aqueous potassium hydroxide 2-acetyl-5-octadecyloxythiophene is combined with 35.0 g (0.6 mole) of lithium hypochlorite. The mixture is stirred vigorously on a steam bath overnight, then allowed to cool to room temperature and extracted with ether. The aqueous extract is acidified with hydrochloric acid to precipitate 5-octadecyloxy-2-thiophenecarboxylic acid.

Workup

  1. temperatureis cooled in an ice bath
  2. additionis added
  3. temperatureis cooled to room temperature
  4. extractionthe mixture is extracted with chloroform
  5. customThe chloroform solution is evaporated to dryness

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-0bc6a509ad0f44178245f3e6f26b34e5
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1977_04
Patent number
US04017514

Reaction notes

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