2-Methoxybenzaldehyde → (2-Methoxyphenyl)(3-methyl-2-methoxymethoxyphenyl)methanol

HRID 466929Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 466929 reaction equation
[CH3:1][C:2]1[CH:7]=[CH:6][CH:5]=[CH:4][C:3]=1[O:8][CH2:9][O:10][CH3:11].C([Li])CCC.[CH:17](=[O:26])[C:18]1[C:19]([O:24][CH3:25])=[CH:20][CH:21]=[CH:22][CH:23]=1.[Cl-].[NH4+]>CCCCCC.CN(C)CCN(C)C.O1CCCC1>[CH3:25][O:24][C:19]1[CH:20]=[CH:21][CH:22]=[CH:23][C:18]=1[CH:17]([C:4]1[CH:5]=[CH:6][CH:7]=[C:2]([CH3:1])[C:3]=1[O:8][CH2:9][O:10][CH3:11])[OH:26]

Participants

8

Procedure

1-Methyl-2-methoxymethoxybenzene (15.2 g) was added to a mixture of 75 ml of a 1.6M solution of n-butyl lithium in hexane and 18.1 ml of tetramethylethylenediamine at 0° C. with stirring. After 4 hours, 13.6 g of o-anisaldehyde dissolved in 30 ml of tetrahydrofuran was added. The mixture was allowed to react for 0.5 hour and was then poured into a mixture of ice and saturated aqueous ammonium chloride. The resulting mixture was extracted with ether and the ether extract was dried over magnesium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated by evaporation under reduced pressure to obtain 39.5 g of the title compound as an off-white solid. The assigned structure was consistent with the proton NMR spectrum.

Workup

  1. additionwas added
  2. customto react for 0.5 hour
  3. extractionThe resulting mixture was extracted with ether
  4. extractionthe ether extract
  5. dry with materialwas dried over magnesium sulfate
  6. filtrationfiltered
  7. concentrationconcentrated by evaporation under reduced pressure

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-1716fa5e85214cb28145536063e69974
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1992_10
Patent number
US05158597

Reaction notes

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