Hydrochloric Acid → Phenacylamine

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Reaction Conditions

Reaction Steps

2-Bromoacetophenone (18 g, 90 mmol) was dissolved in 900 m of chloroform. Hexamethylenetetraamine (13.87 g, 99 mmol) was added thereto and the reaction mixture was stirred at 60° C. for 4 hours. After stirring, the reaction mixture was cooled down to room temperature, filtered, and the collected precipitate was suspended in 180 m of ethanol. To the suspension thus obtained was added dropwise 90 m of conc. HCl, and the reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 18 hours. Then, the reaction mixture was filtered to remove a white precipitate, the filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure to obtain a yellow solid. This solid was recrystallized from a mixture of methanol and ethyl acetate (1:50, v/v) to obtain 13 g of 2-aminoacetophenone as a yellow solid.

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