Sodium borohydride → Ethyl 3-(4-chloro-3-fluorophenyl)-2-cyanopropanoate

HRID 82360Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 82360 reaction equation
[BH4-].[Na+].[Cl:3][C:4]1[CH:9]=[CH:8][C:7]([CH:10]=[C:11]([C:17]#[N:18])[C:12]([O:14][CH2:15][CH3:16])=[O:13])=[CH:6][C:5]=1[F:19]>CCO>[Cl:3][C:4]1[CH:9]=[CH:8][C:7]([CH2:10][CH:11]([C:17]#[N:18])[C:12]([O:14][CH2:15][CH3:16])=[O:13])=[CH:6][C:5]=1[F:19]

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 4311764Sodium borohydrideHCID 67338173Ethyl 3-(4-chloro-3-fluorophenyl)-2-cyanoacrylate

Product 1

HCID 67338337Ethyl 3-(4-chloro-3-fluorophenyl)-2-cyanopropanoateYield 99%

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 702EthanolSolvent2×

Procedure

A solution NaBH4 (15 mg, 0.39 mmol) in EtOH (4 mL) was cannulated into a mixture of the ethyl 3-(4-chloro-3-fluorophenyl)-2-cyanoacrylate (200 mg, 0.79 mmol) in EtOH (2 mL) at room temperature. After 5 minutes, the mixture was quenched with 0.1N HCl, concentrated in vacuo, diluted with H2O, extracted with DCM, dried over MgSO4, concentrated and subject to flash chromatography (SiO2 with DCM) to give ethyl 3-(4-chloro-3-fluorophenyl)-2-cyanopropanoate (0.20 g, 58%). LCMS (APCI+) [M+H]+254.3.

Workup

  1. customthe mixture was quenched with 0.1N HCl
  2. concentrationconcentrated in vacuo
  3. additiondiluted with H2O
  4. extractionextracted with DCM
  5. dry with materialdried over MgSO4
  6. concentrationconcentrated

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-9a355cafe23f4371a3c41d7120267249
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2014_09
Patent number
US08846681B2

Reaction notes

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