4-Nitrobenzoyl chloride → Methanone, (4-fluorophenyl)(4-nitrophenyl)-

HRID 729892Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 729892 reaction equation
[N+:1]([C:4]1[CH:12]=[CH:11][C:7]([C:8](Cl)=[O:9])=[CH:6][CH:5]=1)([O-:3])=[O:2].[Cl-].[Al+3].[Cl-].[Cl-].[F:17][C:18]1[CH:23]=[CH:22][CH:21]=[CH:20][CH:19]=1>[N+](CC)([O-])=O>[F:17][C:18]1[CH:23]=[CH:22][C:21]([C:8]([C:7]2[CH:11]=[CH:12][C:4]([N+:1]([O-:3])=[O:2])=[CH:5][CH:6]=2)=[O:9])=[CH:20][CH:19]=1

Participants

5

Procedure

To a solution of 4-nitrobenzoyl chloride (2.3 g, 13 mmol) in nitroethane (20 mL) was added aluminum chloride (3.5 g, 26 mmol) followed by fluorobenzene (1.2 mL, 13 mmol). The mixture was stirred at rt for 4 h, then quenched carefully with 6M HCl. The reaction mixture was washed with dilute aqueous NaOH and brine, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated in vacuo to provide the crude product as a light yellow solid. The solid was purified by recrystallization from hexanes to give (4-fluoro-phenyl)-(4-nitrophenyl)-methanone (2.0 g, 65%). 1H NMR (CHCl3-d) δ 8.41-8.32 (m, 5H), 7.90 (m, 1H), 7.84 (m, 1H), 7.20 (m, 1H).

Workup

  1. customquenched carefully with 6M HCl
  2. washThe reaction mixture was washed with dilute aqueous NaOH and brine
  3. dry with materialdried over sodium sulfate
  4. filtrationfiltered
  5. concentrationconcentrated in vacuo
  6. customto provide the crude product as a light yellow solid
  7. customThe solid was purified by recrystallization from hexanes

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-145d7491497e4999b12fa12b7d529c9a
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2009_09
Patent number
US07582645B2

Reaction notes

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