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brain
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Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:02 am
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can anyone help me? how to obtain that with good yelds?
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Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:15 am
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Reimer-tiemann formylation with CHCl3 gives 2-OH-5-MeO-benzaldehyde (?), methylation with MeI or dimethyl sulfate gives 2,5-dimethoxybenzaldehyde.

Messy process though.
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Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:26 pm
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brain wrote:
can anyone help me? how to obtain that with good yelds?


i thing that better may be using hydroquinone HO-Ph-OH (from fotosupply or oxidation of aniline with K2Cr2O7), formylation eq. with CHCl3, next (CH3)2SO4 (DMF, K2CO3).
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Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:46 pm
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jory wrote:
brain wrote:
can anyone help me? how to obtain that with good yelds?


i thing that better may be using hydroquinone HO-Ph-OH (from fotosupply or oxidation of aniline with K2Cr2O7), formylation eq. with CHCl3, next (CH3)2SO4 (DMF, K2CO3).


Yields are shitty with your procedure. Use Reimer-Tiemann or better, Mg-orthoformylation. Reimer-Tiemann isn't that messy when you get ahold of it.
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Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:10 pm
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And p-methoxyphenol is already halfway methylated compared to hydroquinone, so chances for tar formation are reduced by 50% statistically speaking.. Laughing
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Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:17 pm
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demorol wrote:
jory wrote:
brain wrote:
can anyone help me? how to obtain that with good yelds?


i thing that better may be using hydroquinone HO-Ph-OH (from fotosupply or oxidation of aniline with K2Cr2O7), formylation eq. with CHCl3, next (CH3)2SO4 (DMF, K2CO3).


Yields are shitty with your procedure. Use Reimer-Tiemann or better, Mg-orthoformylation. Reimer-Tiemann isn't that messy when you get ahold of it.


RHODIUM/chemistry/formylations.html sound good ever for hydroquinone
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