Sulfuric Acid → HCID 53773657, compound

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Reaction Steps

Into a 200-ml four-necked flask, were charged 22.2 g of 2-methyl-4-t-butyl-5-hydroxyphenylacetic acid, 100 ml of toluene and 1 ml of concentrated sulfuric acid, and isobutene was blown into the mixture at 50° to 60° C. for a period of 3 hours. After completion of the reaction, the reaction mixture was freed from the catalyst (sulfuric acid) by washing with water and freed from the solvent under reduced pressure to obtain 26.7 g (96% yield) of yellow t-butyl 2-methyl-4-t-butyl-5-hydroxyphenylacetate, which was recrystallized from n-hexane to obtain white crystals melting at 105.0° to 106.0° C.

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