Trityl chloride → [1-(triphenylmethyl)-1H-imidazol-4-yl]methanol

HRID 443249Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 443249 reaction equation
Cl.[OH:2][CH2:3][C:4]1[N:5]=[CH:6][NH:7][CH:8]=1.C(N(CC)CC)C.Cl[C:17]([C:30]1[CH:35]=[CH:34][CH:33]=[CH:32][CH:31]=1)([C:24]1[CH:29]=[CH:28][CH:27]=[CH:26][CH:25]=1)[C:18]1[CH:23]=[CH:22][CH:21]=[CH:20][CH:19]=1>CN(C=O)C>[OH:2][CH2:3][C:4]1[N:5]=[CH:6][N:7]([C:17]([C:18]2[CH:23]=[CH:22][CH:21]=[CH:20][CH:19]=2)([C:30]2[CH:31]=[CH:32][CH:33]=[CH:34][CH:35]=2)[C:24]2[CH:25]=[CH:26][CH:27]=[CH:28][CH:29]=2)[CH:8]=1

Participants

5

Reactant 3

HCID 6456Trityl chlorideHCID 8471TriethylamineHCID 178418488HCID 178418488, compound

Product 1

HCID 382182[1-(triphenylmethyl)-1H-imidazol-4-yl]methanol

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 6228DimethylformamideSolvent2×

Procedure

To a solution of 4-(hydroxymethyl)imidazole hydrochloride (35.0 g, 260 mmol) in 250 mL of dry DMF at room temperature is added triethylamine (90.6 mL, 650 mmol). A white solid precipitates from the solution. Chlorotriphenylmethane (76.1 g, 273 mmol) in 500 mL of DMF is added dropwise. The reaction mixture is stirred for 20 hours, poured over ice, filtered, and washed with ice water. The resulting product is slurried with cold dioxane, filtered, and dried in vacuo to provide the titled product which is sufficiently pure for use in the next step.

Workup

  1. customA white solid precipitates from the solution
  2. additionpoured over ice
  3. filtrationfiltered
  4. washwashed with ice water
  5. filtrationfiltered
  6. customdried in vacuo

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-54a31686341e49a59907998996a21b89
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1999_04
Patent number
US05891889

Reaction notes

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