Ethyl Lactate → HCID 19979930, compound

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Reaction Steps

9.6 g of diethyl azodicarboxylate dissolved in tetrahydrofuran is added to a mixture of 19.4 g of 4-(4'-hydroxybiphenyl-4-yl)-1-cyano-1-octylcyclohexane, 6.5 g of ethyl lactate and 13.1 g of triphenylphosphene in 300 ml of tetrahydrofuran, stirring is carried out for one hour at 50°, the mixture is allowed to stand overnight, the solvent is removed and the residue is taken up in 100 ml of hot toluene. After the toluene solution has been cooled to 0°, it is filtered and the product is isolated from the filtrate as usual by chromatography. Optically active ethyl 2-[4'-(4-cyano-4-octylcyclohexyl)biphenyl-4-yloxy]propionate is obtained.

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