Sodium borohydride → 2-((2,4-Dichlorobenzyl)(methyl)amino)-1-phenylethanol

HRID 870149Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 870149 reaction equation
[Cl:1][C:2]1[CH:19]=[C:18]([Cl:20])[CH:17]=[CH:16][C:3]=1[CH2:4][N:5]([CH3:15])[CH2:6][C:7]([C:9]1[CH:14]=[CH:13][CH:12]=[CH:11][CH:10]=1)=[O:8].[BH4-].[Na+]>CO>[Cl:1][C:2]1[CH:19]=[C:18]([Cl:20])[CH:17]=[CH:16][C:3]=1[CH2:4][N:5]([CH3:15])[CH2:6][CH:7]([C:9]1[CH:14]=[CH:13][CH:12]=[CH:11][CH:10]=1)[OH:8]

Participants

4

Conditions

Temperature
0 °C

Procedure

Into a 250 ml 3-necked roundbottom flask purged and maintained with an inert atmosphere of nitrogen, was placed a solution of 2-((2,4-dichlorobenzyl)(methyl)amino)-1-phenylethanone (4.3 g, 14.01 mmol, 1.00 equiv) in methanol (50 mL). This was followed by the addition of NaBH4 (1.5 g, 39.47 mmol, 2.82 equiv) in several batches at 0° C. The resulting solution was stirred for 30 min at 0° C. in a water/ice bath. The reaction was then quenched by the addition of 20 mL of acetone. The resulting mixture was concentrated under vacuum. The residue was applied onto a silica gel column with ethyl acetate/petroleum ether (1:80˜1:20). This resulted in 3.4 g (79%) of the title compound as a white solid.

Workup

  1. customInto a 250 ml 3-necked roundbottom flask purged
  2. temperaturemaintained with an inert atmosphere of nitrogen
  3. customThe reaction was then quenched by the addition of 20 mL of acetone
  4. concentrationThe resulting mixture was concentrated under vacuum

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-184ca219356a46369aa5c5690d4821dc
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2015_03
Patent number
US08969377B2

Reaction notes

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