Benzyl Alcohol → HCID 68912874, compound

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At room temperature, 34 mg of p-toluenesulfonic acid was added to a mixture of 4.33 g of 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpimelic acid (mfd. by Tokyo Kasei (TCI), Japan), 4.24 g of benzyl alcohol and 16 ml of toluene. By equipping with a Dean-Stark type dehydration tube, this was stirred for 60Hours while heating under reflux, and then cooled down to room temperature. The insoluble matter was removed by filtration, the filtrate was concentrated under a reduced pressure, and the thus obtained residue was purified by a silica gel column chromatography (methanol-chloroform) to obtain 2.18 g of 7-(benzyloxy)-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-7-oxoheptanoic acid as a colorless oily substance. FP: 307.

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