4'-Methoxyacetophenone → HCID 66924844, compound

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Reaction Steps

4′-Methoxyacetophenone (15.0 g) was dissolved in chloroform (70 mL) and diethyl ether (50 mL), and a solution of bromine (16.0 g) in chloroform (20 mL) was added dropwise while maintaining the reaction temperature at not higher than 25° C. After dropwise addition, the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 2 hr. Water was added to the reaction mixture and the mixture was extracted with chloroform. The extract was washed with saturated brine, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and concentrated under reduced pressure to give crude 1-bromo-1-(4-methoxyphenyl)ethanone (yield 22.05 g) as crystals. To ethyl cyanoacetate (79.20 g) was added potassium carbonate (27.65 g), and the mixture was stirred at 45° C. for 1 hr. A solution (100 mL) of crude 1-bromo-1-(4-methoxyphenyl)ethanone (22.0 g) in acetone was added dropwise over 20 min. After completion of the dropwise addition, the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 18 hr. The reaction mixture was filtered, and the filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure. Water was added to the residue, and the mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate. The extract was washed with saturated brine, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and concentrated under reduced pressure. An excess ethyl cyanoacetate contained in the obtained oil was evaporated under reduced pressure, and the residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography (eluent: hexane-ethyl acetate=9:1→3:1) to give the title compound as an oil (yield 30.25 g, about 100%).

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