Hydrochloric Acid → 2-Methylbutanoic acid 4-(2-methylbutanoyl) biphenyl

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Then, 4.0 g of (+)-2-methylbutanoic acid chloride and 7 ml of nitrobenzene were charged into a flask and cooled to 0° C., to which was added 10.74 g (80 mmol) of aluminum chloride with stirring and further added a solution of 4.97 g (19.6 mmol) of (+) 2-methylbutanoic acid-4-biphenyl in 9 ml of nitrobenzene and then stirred at room temperature for 70 hours. Thereafter, the resulting mixture was added with 2 normal hydrochloric acid and ice and extracted with chloroform. The chloroform layer was washed with water, dried on anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and purified by a column chromatography of silica gel after the distillation off of the solvent to obtain 3.60 g (yield 54%) of oily 2-methylbutanoic acid-4-(2-methylbutanoyl) biphenyl. The NMR analytical values of this purified product were as follows.

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