Hydrogen Peroxide → HCID 14348395, compound

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Reaction Conditions

Reaction Steps

16 ml (0.22 mol) of dimethyl sulphide and 24.2 g (0.19 mol) of dimethyl sulphate are added to 30 ml of tert.-butanol and the mixture is allowed to stand for 14 hours at 20° C. A solution of 17 g (0.07 mol) of 1-chlorocyclopropyl 4-chlorophenylethyl ketone in 70 ml of tert.-butanol is initially added dropwise with stirring to the reaction mixture and 22 g of potassium hydroxide powder are then introduced, the temperature of the reaction mixture being held at 20° to 30° C. The mixture is stirred for a further 3 hours at 30° C., then the dimethyl sulphide is stripped off under reduced pressure and the reaction mixture is then poured into 50 ml of a 1% strength aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution. The mixture is extracted using ethyl acetate. The organic phase is washed using water and is concentrated by stripping off the solvent under reduced pressure after drying over sodium sulphate. In this manner, 13.4 g (75% of theory) of 2-(1-chlorocyclopropyl)-2-(4-chlorophenylethyl)-oxirane are obtained in the form of an oily product, which is further reacted without additional purification. ##STR69##

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