Phosphorus oxychloride → 5-(Hexadecyloxy)thiophene-2-carbaldehyde

HRID 596654Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 596654 reaction equation
CN([CH:9]=[O:10])C1C=CC=CC=1.P(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)=O.[CH2:16]([O:32][C:33]1[S:34][CH:35]=[CH:36][CH:37]=1)[CH2:17][CH2:18][CH2:19][CH2:20][CH2:21][CH2:22][CH2:23][CH2:24][CH2:25][CH2:26][CH2:27][CH2:28][CH2:29][CH2:30][CH3:31]>>[CH2:16]([O:32][C:33]1[S:34][C:35]([CH:9]=[O:10])=[CH:36][CH:37]=1)[CH2:17][CH2:18][CH2:19][CH2:20][CH2:21][CH2:22][CH2:23][CH2:24][CH2:25][CH2:26][CH2:27][CH2:28][CH2:29][CH2:30][CH3:31]

Participants

4

Conditions

Temperature
70 °C

Procedure

To a cooled mixture of 27 g of N-methylformanilide and 27 g (0.176 mole) of phosphorus oxychloride is added 32.5 g (0.1 mole) of 2-hexadecyloxythiophene. The mixture is warmed to 70° C under vacuum (10 mm Hg). The mixture is allowed to stand at 60°-70° C for 7 hours, then overnight at room temperature after which the mixture is stirred into 100 g of ice. The mixture is extracted into benzene, washed with water, dried over sodium sulfate and distilled in vacuo to give 5-hexadecyloxy-2-thiophenecarboxaldehyde. The carboxaldehyde (7.1 g, 0.02 mole) is stirred vigorously with 4 g of potassium hydroxide in 2.6 ml of water for 24 hours. The mixture is diluted with water and extracted into ether. The aqueous layer is separated and acidified with hydrochloric acid precipitating 5-(hexadecyloxy)-2 -thiophenecarboxylic acid.

Workup

  1. extractionThe mixture is extracted into benzene
  2. washwashed with water
  3. dry with materialdried over sodium sulfate
  4. distillationdistilled in vacuo

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-429f47ccd1c2489a8857bc7c12e6e05a
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1977_03
Patent number
US04011333

Reaction notes

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