Acetic Anhydride → 6-Methyl-2-oxo-2H-1-benzopyran-7-yl acetate

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To prepare the alkylangelicins with an alkyl group in the 4'-position of the furan ring, the suitable umbelliferones, (I), (II), (III) were acetylated and the 7-acetoxycoumarins thus obtained were submitted to the Fries rearrangement. The 8-acetylumbelliferones were converted into the ethyl esters of the 7-(8-acetylcoumarinyl)oxyacetic acids, which were then hydrolized and cyclized yielding the desired 4'-methylangelicins. In such a manner a mixture of 6-methyl-7-hydroxycoumarin (I) (10.0 g), acetic anhydride (40 ml) and anhydrous AcONa (4.0 g) was refluxed for 1 h. To the reaction mixture an equal volume of H2O was cautiously added and the whole was refluxed for 10 min. The mixture was diluted with H2O (300 ml), chilled and the precipitate was collected by filtration, washed several times with H2O, dried and crystallized from MeOH, yielding the 6-methyl-7-acetoxycoumarin (XXII) (10.0 g; m.p. 147° C.). ##STR28##

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