2,6-Dimethoxyphenol → Ethyl (2,6-dimethoxyphenoxy)acetate

HRID 469175Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 469175 reaction equation
[CH3:1][O:2][C:3]1[CH:8]=[CH:7][CH:6]=[C:5]([O:9][CH3:10])[C:4]=1[OH:11].Br[CH2:13][C:14]([O:16][CH2:17][CH3:18])=[O:15].C([O-])([O-])=O.[K+].[K+]>CN(C=O)C>[CH3:10][O:9][C:5]1[CH:6]=[CH:7][CH:8]=[C:3]([O:2][CH3:1])[C:4]=1[O:11][CH2:13][C:14]([O:16][CH2:17][CH3:18])=[O:15]

Participants

5

Reactant 3

HCID 70412,6-DimethoxyphenolHCID 7748Ethyl bromoacetateHCID 11430Potassium Carbonate

Product 1

HCID 24208816Ethyl (2,6-dimethoxyphenoxy)acetateYield 91.6%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 6228DimethylformamideSolvent

Conditions

Temperature
30 °C

Procedure

To a solution of 2,6-dimethoxyphenol (1.54 g, 10 mmol) and ethyl bromoacetate (2.00 g, 12 mmol) in 15 mL of anhydrous DMF, was added 2.76 g (20 mmol) of K2CO3. The reaction mixture was stirred at 30° C. for 20 hours. The mixture was concentrated in vacuo to remove volatiles. The resulting residue was extracted with EtOAc, washed with brine, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and then concentrated in vacou to give 2.2 g (91.6%) of ethyl 2-(2,6-dimethoxyphenoxy)acetate. The obtained ester (1.2 g, 5 mmol) was dissolved in a suspension of Silica Gel (2.0 g) in 20 mL of DCM. To this was dropwise added of a solution of concentrated HNO3 (20 mL) in 20 mL of DCM at rt. After being stirred at room temperature for 1 hour, it was transferred into a separatory funnel and then brown bottom layer was discarded into 100 g of ice. The remaining top organic layer was washed with brine, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, and then concentrated in vacou to give 1.4 g (98%) of ethyl 2-(2,6-dimethoxy-4-nitrophenoxy)acetate as a brown solid. The obtained nitrophenoxy ester (1.34 g, 4.7 mmol) was dissolved in anhydrous THF (20 mL). To this, was slowly added of 1M DIBAL solution (10.3 mL, 10.3 mmol) in toluene with ice bath cooling. After 1 hour at rt, the reaction was quenched by addition of 1N-NaOH solution, and then extracted with EtOAc. The obtained organic layer was dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, and passed through Silica Gel pad. The resulting filtrate was concentrated in vacuo to afford 2-(2,6-dimethoxy-4-nitrophenoxy)ethanol (1.01 g, 88%) as a pale yellow solid; MS (ESI) m/z 326 [M+H]+.

Workup

  1. concentrationThe mixture was concentrated in vacuo
  2. customto remove volatiles
  3. extractionThe resulting residue was extracted with EtOAc
  4. washwashed with brine
  5. dry with materialdried over anhydrous sodium sulfate
  6. concentrationconcentrated in vacou

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-1e3eb155b8a24714985edda45d98c09b
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2014_01
Patent number
US08629132B2

Reaction notes

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