Malononitrile → (3,4,4-Trifluoro-3-butenyl)malononitrile

HRID 749608Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 749608 reaction equation
[C:1](#[N:5])[CH2:2][C:3]#[N:4].Br[CH2:7][CH2:8][C:9]([F:13])=[C:10]([F:12])[F:11].CC(C)([O-])C.[K+]>[Br-].C([N+](CCCC)(CCCC)CCCC)CCC.O>[F:13][C:9](=[C:10]([F:12])[F:11])[CH2:8][CH2:7][CH:2]([C:1]#[N:5])[C:3]#[N:4]

Participants

6

Conditions

Temperature
0 °C

Procedure

First, 6.98 g of malononitrile, 681 mg of tetrabutylammonium bromide, and 10 g of 4-bromo-1,1,2-trifluoro-1-butene were mixed, and while stirring at 0° C. under an atmosphere of nitrogen, 5.92 g of potassium t-butoxide was slowly added. The mixture was further stirred at room temperature for 12 hours. Then, the reaction mixture was poured into water, followed by extraction with t-butyl methyl ether. The organic layer was washed with water, a saturated aqueous sodium chloride solution, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and then concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was subjected to silica gel column chromatography to give 1.31 g of (3,4,4-trifluoro-3-butenyl)malononitrile (the intermediate (17)).

Workup

  1. stirringThe mixture was further stirred at room temperature for 12 hours
  2. extractionfollowed by extraction with t-butyl methyl ether
  3. washThe organic layer was washed with water
  4. dry with materiala saturated aqueous sodium chloride solution, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate
  5. concentrationconcentrated under reduced pressure

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-1771747157584ba589c49561df7e757f
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2008_07
Patent number
US07402691B2

Reaction notes

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