Acetic Anhydride → 1-(2-Chlorophenyl)propan-2-one

HRID 366355Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 366355 reaction equation
[Cl:1][C:2]1C=[C:4](CC(O)=O)[CH:5]=[CH:6][CH:7]=1.C(O[C:16](=[O:18])[CH3:17])(=O)C.[C:19]([O-])(=O)[CH3:20].[Na+]>O.Cl>[Cl:1][C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][C:19]=1[CH2:20][C:16](=[O:18])[CH3:17]

Participants

6

Procedure

The general pathway for making compounds of Formula (I) is outlined above. In accordance with the general pathway, approximately 17 g of 0.1 mol 3-Chlorophenylacetic acid was refluxed in acetic anhydride (75 ml, 0.8 mol) and sodium acetate (8.2 g., 0.1 mol) for 2 days. The resulting mixture was allowed to cool to room temperature and diluted with water (150 ml). The organic layer was then refluxed in concentrated HCl (80 ml) for one hour, cooled to room temperature and then 200 ml of water was added to the mixture. The mixture was extracted with ethyl ether to produce 2-chlorphenyl acetone at about a 41% yield. The intermediate product had a boiling point of about 76° C.

Workup

  1. temperaturecooled to room temperature
  2. extractionThe mixture was extracted with ethyl ether

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-513bc6a9cb734382a548dd488c17f91e
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2000_10
Patent number
US06130221

Reaction notes

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