Toluene → 4-(2-Hydroxyethyl)morpholin-3-one

HRID 601439Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 601439 reaction equation
[K].[C:2]1([CH3:8])C=CC=CC=1.[NH:9]([CH2:13][CH2:14][OH:15])[CH2:10][CH2:11][OH:12].ClCC(OC)=[O:19]>CO>[OH:12][CH2:11][CH2:10][N:9]1[CH2:8][CH2:2][O:15][CH2:14][C:13]1=[O:19]

Participants

6

Conditions

Temperature
75 °C

Procedure

Potassium tert-butoxyde (176 g, 1.1 eq.) was added to 1440 ml of toluene. The suspension was heated to 75° C. and maintained for 30 minutes until complete dissolution of the white solid. At this temperature diethanolamine (150 g, 1 eq.) was slowly added. The thick pale yellow suspension was maintained with strong stirring for 30 minutes and methyl chloroacetate (163 g, 1.05 eq.) was added slowly. The solution was maintained at the same temperature for two hours. To the warm mixture methanol (600 ml) was added and cooled at room temperature, salts were filtrated and the organic layer concentrated until dry. Compound (IV) was obtained as an orange oil (204 g, 98%) which was distilled under high vacuum to obtain it as a highly pure colorless oil (80%, bp5 180° C.). IR (film) (n cm-1): 3410, 2934, 2874, 1633, 1501, 1350, 1141. MS (EI), (m/z, %): 145 (M+., 12), 114 (M-CH2OH, 100), 86 (M-NC2H4OH, 65), 74 (M-71, 7), 56 (M-89, 41), 42 (M-103, 44).

Workup

  1. temperaturemaintained for 30 minutes until complete dissolution of the white solid
  2. temperatureThe thick pale yellow suspension was maintained
  3. temperatureThe solution was maintained at the same temperature for two hours
  4. temperaturecooled at room temperature
  5. filtrationsalts were filtrated
  6. concentrationthe organic layer concentrated
  7. customuntil dry

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-2584d230f6384088bc64045e8e48234b
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2011_03
Patent number
US07902357B2

Reaction notes

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