Hydrogen Peroxide → HCID 20500875, compound

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Reaction Steps

Benzonitrile (1 ml.), potassium carbonate (0.2 g.) and 30% aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution (1.5 ml.) were added to a solution of methyl 2-p-nitrophenylprop-2-enoate (1.0 g.) in a mixture of methanol (15 ml.) and chloroform (15 ml.) and the mixture was stirred at laboratory temperature for 17 hours and then poured into water. The mixture was extracted three times with diethyl ether and the combined extracts were washed successively with water, aqueous ferrous sulphate solution and saturated aqueous sodium chloride solution, dried over magnesium sulphate and evaporated to dryness under reduced pressure. There was thus obtained as solid residue methyl 2,3-epoxy-2-p-nitrophenylpropionate which was used without further purification.

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