Water → HCID 178444330, compound

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A suspension of 3.6 g of butyltriphenylphosphonium bromide in 40 ml of t-butyl methyl ether was placed at room temperature while gassing with argon in a sulphonation flask provided with a thermometer, mechanical stirrer, dropping funnel and solid substance addition tube, treated with 1.01 g of potassium t-butylate and stirred at room temperature for a further 1 hour. The deep orange, heterogeneous mixture was subsequently cooled to -60° C. and treated within 15 minutes with a solution of 1.28 g of trans-4-(p-cyanophenyl)cyclohexanecarboxaldehyde in 10 ml of t-butyl methyl ether. The mixture was stirred for a further 60 minutes while warming slowly to -30° C., then poured into 100 ml of water and extracted three times with 50 ml of diethyl ether each time. The organic phases were washed once with 50 ml of water, dried over magnesium sulphate and concentrated. Low-pressure chromatography (0.5 bar) of the residue (3.45 g) on silica gel with ethyl acetate/petroleum ether (vol. 3:97) gave 1.52 g (99%) of p-[trans-4-(1-pentenyl)cyclohexyl]benzonitrile (trans-1-pentenyl/cis-1-pentenyl ratio about 5:95) as a colourless oil; Rf-value (ethyl acetate/petroleum ether vol. 3:97) 0.19.

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