Acetic Anhydride → 1-[5-(Octadecyloxy)thiophen-2-yl]ethan-1-one

HRID 596657Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 596657 reaction equation
[CH2:1]([O:19][C:20]1[S:21][CH:22]=[CH:23][CH:24]=1)[CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH2:11][CH2:12][CH2:13][CH2:14][CH2:15][CH2:16][CH2:17][CH3:18].[C:25](OC(=O)C)(=[O:27])[CH3:26].B(F)(F)F.CCOCC>>[C:25]([C:22]1[S:21][C:20]([O:19][CH2:1][CH2:2][CH2:3][CH2:4][CH2:5][CH2:6][CH2:7][CH2:8][CH2:9][CH2:10][CH2:11][CH2:12][CH2:13][CH2:14][CH2:15][CH2:16][CH2:17][CH3:18])=[CH:24][CH:23]=1)(=[O:27])[CH3:26]

Participants

4

Conditions

Temperature
100 °C

Procedure

When in Example 3, 1-bromooctadecane is substituted for 1-bromohexadecane, 2-octadecyloxythiophene is obtained. A mixture of 35.3 g (0.1 mole) of 2-octadecyloxythiophene and 12.3 g (0.12 mole) of acetic anhydride is cooled in an ice bath. While rapidly stirring this mixture, 1.4 g of boron trifluoride etherate is added, and the mixture is heated to 100° C with stirring for 1 hour after which it is cooled to room temperature. Ice water is added, and the mixture is extracted with chloroform. The chloroform solution is evaporated to dryness under reduce pressure to give 2-acetyl-5-octadecyloxythiophene. In 500 ml of 10% aqueous potassium hydroxide 2-acetyl-5-octadecyloxythiophene is combined with 35.0 g (0.6 mole) of lithium hypochlorite. The mixture is stirred vigorously on a steam bath overnight, then allowed to cool to room temperature and extracted with ether. The aqueous extract is acidified with hydrochloric acid to precipitate 5-octadecyloxy-2-thiophenecarboxylic acid

Workup

  1. temperatureis cooled in an ice bath
  2. additionis added
  3. temperatureis cooled to room temperature
  4. extractionthe mixture is extracted with chloroform
  5. customThe chloroform solution is evaporated to dryness

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-69ea9993813548a0ac09bbfd9de37f5a
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1977_03
Patent number
US04011333

Reaction notes

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