Acetone → 6-(benzyloxy)-3,4-dihydronaphthalen-1(2H)-one

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The mixture of 6-hydroxy-3,4-dihydro-2H-naphthalen-1-one (30.74 g, 0.1895 mol), benzyl bromide (27.0 mL, 0.227 mol) and potassium carbonate (39.3 g, 0.284 mol) in acetone (250 mL, 3.4 mol) was heated to reflux under an atmosphere of nitrogen for 3 hours. The mixture was cooled to 10° C. with an ice bath, filtered and washed with small amount of to acetone. The filtrate was concentrated in rotavap. The resulting crystals were collected by filtration and washed with EtOAc-hexane then hexane to give a pale yellow solid product as the first crop. The mother liquid was concentrated in rotavapor and the residue was purified by chromatograph with EtOAc:hexane (0:100 to 20:80) to give the second crop of solid product (38.07 g, 80%). 1H NMR (CHLOROFORM-d) δ: 8.02 (d, J=8.6 Hz, 1H), 7.32-7.51 (m, 5H), is 6.91 (dd, J=8.8, 2.3 Hz, 1H), 6.80 (s, 1H), 5.13 (s, 2H), 2.93 (t, J=6.1 Hz, 2H), 2.56-2.68 (m, 2H), 2.12 (quin, J=6.3 Hz, 2H). MS (M+1): 253.0.

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