Hydrochloric Acid → HCID 54109422, compound

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Orcinol monohydride, 14.20 g (100.0 mmol), in 160 ml of benzene was heated to distill benzene. This step was carried out twice by way of an operation of dehydration. The product of dehydration was dissolved in 45 ml of nitrobenzene and 45 ml of carbon disulfide, and 26.7 g (200 mmol, 2.00 equivalents) of aluminum chloride was added piecemeal while cooled with cold water and stirred, with a calcium chloride tube attached. Then, 12.1 g (100 mmol, 1.00 equivalent) of isovaleryl chloride was slowly added dropwise and stirred at room temperature for 14 hours. After the stop of the evolution of an acidic gas was confirmed, the resultant reaction mixture was poured into dilute hydrochloric acid (prepared from 100 ml of concentrated hydrochloric acid and 400 ml of cold water), stirred, and then extracted by ether. The ether layer was washed with saturated brine and the ether was removed under a reduced pressure. The residue was combined with water added piecemeal and meanwhile distilled under a reduced pressure to remove nitrobenzene by steam distillation. The residue was extracted by ether, washed with saturated brine, dried over sodium sulfate, and distilled off the solvent and obtain 18.53 g of a crude product in the form of brown viscous oily substance. The crude product was subjected to silica gel column chromatography (220 g of Wako Gel C-200, eluted with hexane:ethyl acetate=9:1) to obtain 5.681 g of (2,4-dihydroxy-6-methylphenyl) (2-methylpropyl) ketone (47).

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