Hydrochloric Acid → Ethanone, 2-chloro-1-(tetrahydro-2-furanyl)- (9CI)

Oxalyl chloride (5.2ml, 60mmol) and DMF (1 drop) were added to (RS)-2-tetrahydrofuroic acid (W. E. Kaufmann and R. Adams, J.Amer.Chem.Soc., 1923, 45, 3029) (4.64g, 40mmol) in dichloromethane (25ml). The mixture was stirred 1h, evaporated in vacuo, dichloromethane added and reevaporated to give 2-tetrahydrofuroyl chloride, vmax (CH2Cl2) 1795cm-1. 2-Tetrahydrofuroyl chloride in ether (25ml) and dichloromethane (10ml) was added dropwise to an ice bath cooled solution of diazomethane (ca 80mmol) in ether (150ml). The reaction mixture was stirred 0.25h then a stream of hydrogen chloride gas passed into the solution for ca 2 minutes then stirred a further 0.25h, washed with saturated brine, dried, concentrated and flash chromatographed on silica gel eluting with 5,7.5 and 10% ethyl acetate in hexane to provide the title compound (2.46g, 41%); (Found: M+, 148.0279. C6H ClO2 requires M, 148.0291); vmax (CH2Cl2) 1739, 1395, 1071 and 936cm-1 ; δH (CDCl3, 250MHz) 1.8-2.4 (4H, m) and 3.9-4.6 (5H, m).

1. washwashed with saturated brine
2. customdried
3. concentrationconcentrated
4. customflash chromatographed on silica gel eluting with 5,7.5 and 10% ethyl acetate in hexane

ORD record

ord-30c9f0b7974243fc903c4d6a8de89859

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2000_02

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US06020329