Hydrochloric Acid → 3-(3-Chloropropoxy)-4-methoxybenzoic acid

HRID 384811Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 384811 reaction equation
[Cl:1][CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][O:5][C:6]1[CH:7]=[C:8]([CH:13]=[CH:14][C:15]=1[O:16][CH3:17])[C:9]([O:11]C)=[O:10].[OH-].[Na+].Cl>CO>[Cl:1][CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][O:5][C:6]1[CH:7]=[C:8]([CH:13]=[CH:14][C:15]=1[O:16][CH3:17])[C:9]([OH:11])=[O:10]

Participants

5

Conditions

Temperature
40 °C

Procedure

In a 300 mL volume glass flask equipped with a stirrer, a thermometer and a dropping funnel were placed 18.2 g (69.7 mmol) of methyl 3-(3-chloropropoxy)-4-methoxybenzoate, 69.7 mL of aqueous sodium hydroxide solution (2 mol/L), and 69.7 mL of methanol. The resulting mixture was heated to 40° C. for 4 hours in an argon gas atmosphere. After the reaction was complete, the reaction mixture was cooled to 10° C., and neutralized by 69.7 mL of hydrochloric acid (2 mol/L), to precipitate a crystalline product. The crystalline product was collected and dried under reduced pressure, to give 7.2 g (isolated yield: 95.8%, purity: 99% in terms of area percentage by high performance liquid chromatography) of 3-(3-chloropropoxy)-4-methoxybenzoic acid as a white crystalline product.

Workup

  1. customIn a 300 mL volume glass flask equipped with a stirrer
  2. temperaturethe reaction mixture was cooled to 10° C.
  3. customto precipitate a crystalline product
  4. customThe crystalline product was collected
  5. customdried under reduced pressure

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-e467454aefa74ed3a2f9ea871dac7df2
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2013_02
Patent number
US08367824B2

Reaction notes

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