Some common heterocyclic compound, 14920-81-1, name is Methyl 2,6-dimethylbenzoate, molecular formula is C10H12O2, traditional synthetic route has been very mature, but the traditional synthetic route has various shortcomings, such as complicated route, low yield, poor purity, etc, below Introduce a new synthetic route. Formula: C10H12O2
General procedure: To a flame-dried 250 mL round-bottom flask under argon wereadded 4 (8.02 g, 28.4 mmol, 1 equiv), TMEDA (8.71 mL, 58.2mmol, 2.05 equiv), and anhydrous n-hexane (28 mL). Theresulting solution was cooled in an ice bath and sec-butyllithium(1.4 M solution in cyclohexane, 42.0 mL, 58.2 mmol, 2.05equiv) was added dropwise. The ice bath was removed and thereaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 4 h. Thereaction was cooled to -78 C and a solution of methyl 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoate (5.11 g, 28.7 mmol, 1.01 equiv) in anhydrousn-hexane (28 mL) was added slowly via cannula. After the addition,the mixture was allowed to slowly warm to room temperatureand stirred for 12 h. The reaction was quenched with water(25 mL) and the biphasic mixture was stirred vigorously for 30min. The mixture was diluted with Et2O (100 mL) and the layerswere separated. The organic layer was washed with water(2 × 150 mL) and brine (1 × 150 mL). The organic layer wastransferred to a 250 mL round-bottom flask equipped with astir bar. To the vigorously stirred solution was added conc. HCl(12 mL), resulting in a bright-yellow precipitate. The suspensionwas stirred vigorously for 30 min then diluted with water (150mL). The layers were separated and the organic layer wasextracted with water (3 × 150 mL or until the washings becomecolorless). To the combined aqueous layers was added solidNaBF4 (9.35 g, 85.2 mmol, 3 equiv), resulting in a bright-yellowprecipitate. The resulting suspension was extracted withdichloromethane (3 × 150 mL or until the washings become colorless).To the combined organic layers was added HBF4·Et2Ocomplex (3.46 mL, 28.4 mmol, 1 equiv). The solution wasswirled to achieve homogeneity then washed with water(1 × 100 mL) and aq. NaBF4 (1 M, 1 × 100 mL). The organic layerwas dried over solid NaBF4, filtered, and concentrated to dryness.The residue was purified by trituration with hexanes andfiltered. The solid was rinsed with n-pentane and dried in vacuoto give xanthylium 3 (10.6 g, 21.3 mmol, 75% yield) as a yelloworangesolid.
These compound has a wide range of applications. It is believed that with the continuous development of the source of the synthetic route 14920-81-1, its application will become more common.
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Article; White, Alexander R.; Wang, Leifeng; Nicewicz, David A.; Synlett; vol. 30; 7; (2019); p. 827 – 832;,
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