LiD
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Synthesis of chloromethyl-phenyl ethers
Hi everyone,
I've been wondering that would it be possible to make this synthesis:
I have tried it out not long ago with dicyclohexa-18-crown-6 as a catalyst and a little DMSO to get a better solubility for the potassium-phenolate,
but the only thing that I've got from the reaction was diphenoxy-methane, so what chloroether have been produced, it reacted with another
phenolate....
I have used this amounts:
5g K-phenolate
100cm3 dichloromethane
20cm3 DMSO
30mg catalyst
The reaction mixture have been refluxed for 5 hours.
Anyone has any idea that how to make this compound?
I am also making a paralell reaction without DMSO and without reflux.
Thanks!
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Generally it is not possible to obtain a product that is several magnitudes more electrophilic that the starting material by a simple alkylation for
it reacts further with the nucleophile much more readily.
If you want to prepare PhOCH2Cl from phenol and CH2Cl2, there is a two step synthesis described in Chemische
Berichte 1963, 96, 2266-2280. Of course, there are a few other ways, if you are willing to use other starting materials.
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