Dimethylformamide → Tert-butyl [2-(cyanomethyl)phenoxy]acetate

HRID 450788Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 450788 reaction equation
[OH:1][C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][C:3]=1[CH2:8][C:9]#[N:10].Br[CH2:12][C:13]([O:15][C:16]([CH3:19])([CH3:18])[CH3:17])=[O:14].CN(C=O)C.C(=O)([O-])[O-].[K+].[K+]>O>[C:16]([O:15][C:13](=[O:14])[CH2:12][O:1][C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][C:3]=1[CH2:8][C:9]#[N:10])([CH3:19])([CH3:18])[CH3:17]

Participants

6

Reactant 4

HCID 6228DimethylformamideHCID 11430Potassium CarbonateHCID 79177tert-Butyl bromoacetateHCID 105828242-(2-Hydroxyphenyl)acetonitrile

Product 1

HCID 59479112Tert-butyl [2-(cyanomethyl)phenoxy]acetateYield 97.5%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 962WaterSolvent

Procedure

To a mixture of 2.92 g of (2-hydroxyphenyl)acetonitrile, 4.71 g of tert-butyl bromoacetate and 110 mL of DMF was added 6.06 g of potassium carbonate at room temperature, followed by stirring for 12 hours. To the reaction solution was added water, followed by extraction with ethyl acetate. The extract was dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and then concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography using hexane/ethyl acetate as an eluent solvent to obtain 5.29 g of tert-butyl[2-(cyanomethyl)phenoxy]acetate as a yellow oily substance.

Workup

  1. extractionfollowed by extraction with ethyl acetate
  2. dry with materialThe extract was dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate
  3. concentrationconcentrated under reduced pressure
  4. customThe residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-ac0f7fef50c843bdac9b0fe20c9b2064
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2013_07
Patent number
US08486970B2

Reaction notes

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