Acetic Anhydride → HCID 86584103, compound

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Reaction Steps

Amino-terminated butadiene-acrylonitrile (sold as Hycar resin 1300 X42 ATBN by BF Goodrich, in which the m and n depicted in the structure are integers to provide a number average molecular weight of 3600) (450 g, 500 mmol based on amine equivalent weight AEW=450 g) was dissolved in CHCl3 (1000 mL) in a 3 L four-necked flask equipped with addition funnel, mechanical stirrer, internal temperature probe and nitrogen inlet/outlet. The stirred solution was placed under nitrogen and cooled on an ice bath. The addition funnel was charged with maleic anhydride (98.1 g, 1 mol) in CHCl3 (50 mL) and this solution was added to the reaction over 30 minutes, maintaining the internal reaction temperature below 10° C. This mixture was stirred for 30 minutes on ice, then allowed to warm to room temperature and stirred for an additional 4hours. To the resulting slurry was added acetic anhydride (Ac2O) (653.4 g, 6 mol), triethylamine (Et3N) (64.8 g, 0.64 mol) and NaOAc (62.3 g, 0.76 mol). The reaction was heated to mild reflux for 5 hours, allowed to cool to room temperature, and subsequently extracted with H2O (1 L), satd. NaHCO3 (1 L) and H2O (2×1 L). Solvent was removed in vacuo to yield the maleimide terminated butadiene acrylonitrile.

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