Hydrochloric Acid → 2-(3-(2-Chloro-6-methylbenzyloxy)phenyl)acetic acid

HRID 516860Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 516860 reaction equation
[Cl:1][C:2]1[CH:21]=[CH:20][CH:19]=[C:18]([CH3:22])[C:3]=1[CH2:4][O:5][C:6]1[CH:7]=[C:8]([CH2:12][C:13]([O:15]CC)=[O:14])[CH:9]=[CH:10][CH:11]=1.[OH-].[Na+].Cl>C(O)C>[Cl:1][C:2]1[CH:21]=[CH:20][CH:19]=[C:18]([CH3:22])[C:3]=1[CH2:4][O:5][C:6]1[CH:7]=[C:8]([CH2:12][C:13]([OH:15])=[O:14])[CH:9]=[CH:10][CH:11]=1

Participants

5

Reactant 3

HCID 313Hydrochloric AcidHCID 14798Sodium HydroxideHCID 66875155Ethyl 2-(3-(2-chloro-6-methylbenzyloxy)phenyl)acetate

Product 1

HCID 445474582-(3-(2-Chloro-6-methylbenzyloxy)phenyl)acetic acid

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 702EthanolSolvent

Procedure

To a stirred solution of Ethyl 2-(3-(2-chloro-6-methylbenzyloxy)phenyl)acetate (Step B, 4.94 g, 15.5 mmol) in absolute ethanol (80 ml) was added 1N NaOH (40 ml) at room temperature. The reaction mixture was stirred for 3 hours, acidified to pH 3.5-4.0 by adding 1N HCl and concentrated. The residue was taken into chloroform and washed with 0.1N HCl, brine, dried over Na2SO4, filtered, concentrated and purified by flash chromatography on a silica gel column (chloroform:methanol, 95:5 spiked with acetic acid) to give the title compound.

Workup

  1. concentrationconcentrated
  2. washwashed with 0.1N HCl, brine
  3. dry with materialdried over Na2SO4
  4. filtrationfiltered
  5. concentrationconcentrated
  6. custompurified by flash chromatography on a silica gel column (chloroform:methanol, 95:5 spiked with acetic acid)

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-049cb86012424a4cbfeba75d78999a23
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2015_08
Patent number
US09115072B2

Reaction notes

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