The experiments were joy to set up run, the purifications were a piece of cake, the crystals were shiny and the yields were terrific - or maybe weren’t but I liked the preparation anyway.
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1,1-dicyano-2-methoxy-2-(1′-naphtylmethyl)-ethylene 9.175g (36.95 mmol) and t-Bu-hydrazine hydrochloride 4.65g (37.3 mmol) was suspended in absolute ethanol 0.25L and triethylamine 5.3mL was added dropwise over 7 min period. After stirring at RT...
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This procedure employs methyl triflate. The final product is a strong irritant. See the notes below.
A slurry of 1-naphtaleneacetic acid 26.00g (140 mmol) in dichloromethane 60mL in a 250mL round flask was placed on ambient water bath and neat...
To a cooled solution (–78 °C) of 8-bromoquinoline (2.25 g, 10.8 mmol) in THF (70 mL) in a flame-dried flask under N2 was added n-BuLi (2.5 M in hex, 6 mL, 15 mmol) drop-wise. The dark orange mixture was allowed to stir for 10 min. Aldehyde (2.84...
A 1-L 3-neck round bottom flask was equipped with an overhead mechanical stirrer, an internal temperature thermometer, and a dropping funnel. The flask was charged with methanesulfonic acid (250 mL) and warmed with stirring to an internal temperature...
The question was: how to perform this reaction in a clean way (no column purifications, no distillations), cheap (if possible, no Ag salts or any other expensive metals), easy (if possible, no Ar and no Schlenk flasks, open air, solvents from bottles),...