1-Phenylethanol, preparation

Cognate preparations. 2-Phenylethanol. Prepare a suspension of 42 g (1.83 mol) of sodium in 120 ml of sodium-dried toluene in a 3-litre threenecked flask following the procedure described in Method 2 under Sodium, Section 4.2.65, p. 462. Do not decant the toluene when the mixture has cooled to about 60 °C, add a solution of 50 g (0.30 mol) of ethyl phenylacetate (Expt 5.152) in 150g (190 ml) of super-dry ethanol (Section 4.1.9, p. 401) as... 

McEwen et al. hydrogenated 2-azido-2-phenylethanol, prepared by the reaction of styrene oxide with sodium azide, over platinum oxide in ethanol to give 2-amino-2-phenylethanol in 81% yield (eq. 9.93).245... 

SJ-l-Phenylethanol, preparation, 12 Phenyl carbene ( CHC6H5), 116, 275 Phenyl nitrene (CeHsN), 118 Phenyl nitrenium ion, 120 [4]Phenylene, 150... 

Wnte equations showing how 1 phenylethanol (C6H5CHCH3) could be prepared from each... 

The oxa-Pictet-Spengler reaction has been used with success to prepare dihydrofurano[2,3-c]pyrans and isochromans from l-(3-furyl)alkan-2-ols and 2-(3 ,4 -dihydroxy)phenylethanol, respectively. Furanyl alcohol 32 reacted with isobutyraldehyde 33 in the presence of p-toluenesulfonic acid to give the corresponding CI5-5,7-diisopropyl 4,5-dihydro-7H-furano[2,3-c]pyran 34 in good yield. ... 

Other workers have obtained higher yields of phenylethanol is absolute methanol the 90% yield reported above was probably due to traces of residual acid remaining from the catalyst preparation. Note that hydrogenolysis with this catalyst can be prevented completely by traces of base addition of base is often a useful means of preventing or minimizing unwanted hydrogenolysis in a variety of systems. 

How would you prepare the following compounds from 1-phenylethanol More than one step may be required. 

Problem 20.11 How might you prepare 2-phenylethanol from benzyl bromide More than one step is needed. 

Use of ferrocenylmonophosphine (fU-(A)-PPFA 5a for the same reaction improved the enantioselectivity.24,25,26 Here, the hydrosilylation product was oxidized into ( y)-l-phenylethanol 3 with 52% ee (entry 3). The ferrocenylmonophosphine 6 supported on Merrifield polystyrene resin has been also used for the hydrosilylation of styrene, though the enantioselectivity was lower (15% ee) (entry 4).27 Several chiral (/ -/V-sulfonylaminoalkyl)phosphines 7 were prepared from (A)-valinol and used for the asymmetric hydrosilylation of styrene.28 For styrene, phosphine 7a which contains methanesulfonyl group was most effective giving (asymmetric hydrosilylation (entries 6-9).29,29a... 

Another work on the Hquid phase hydrogenation of acetophenone is that of Casagrande et al. The reaction was studied over a series of silica-supported bimetallic catalysts with various Ru/Cr atomic ratios, which were prepared by reduction at room temperature with aqueous sodium tetrahydroborate. The nanostructured catalysts are very active in the low-pressure hydrogenation of acetophenone, although the selectivity towards 1-phenylethanol did not surpass 22% at 90% conversion. The addition of chromium salts to the starting solution gave rise to... 

Preparative scale reduction of oximes at a mercury or lead cathode in acid solution has been used in the conversion of the carbonyl function to amine. Originally, 30-50% sulphuric acid was used as solvent [195] but ethanol with dilute hydrochloric acid is usually satisfactory. Aliphatic and aromatic oximes give amines in 64-86% yields [196]. Aromatic ketoximes are also reducible in alkaline solution and acetophenone oxime has been converted to 1-phenylethylamine in a tri-potassium orthophosphate solution [197], The reduction of oximes in acid solution is tolerant of many other substituents as indicated by a number of examples [198, 199, 200. Phenylglyoxa monoxime in acid solution is however reduced at both the carbonyl and the oxime centres by sodium amalgam to yield 2-amino-1-phenylethanol [201]... 

We synthesized 8 by the one-step reaction of [Ph4(Tl -C4CO)]Ru(CO)3 with benzyl chloride. In contrast to previous alcohol racemization catalysts, 8 was stable in the air during racemization [30]. The racemization was performed even under 1 atm of molecular oxygen. Thus, alcohol DKR was for the first time possible with 8 in the air at room temperature (R)-l-phenylethyl acetate (99% yield, greater than 99%e.e.) was obtained from 1-phenylethanol by using 4mol% of 8, CALB and isopropenyl acetate in the presence of potassium phosphate (Scheme 1.22). This catalyst system was effective for both benzylic and aliphatic alcohols. The synthetic method for 8 was applied to the preparation of a polymer-bound derivative (9). Hydroxymethyl polystyrene was reacted with 4-(chloromethyl)benzoyl chloride to... 

In a related approach, Padovani et al. prepared copolymers of styrene and a styrene derivative containing two pendant ester bonds using free-radical polymerization (Scheme 15) [108], Transesterification reactions were conducted with Novozym 435 as the catalyst and benzyl alcohol or (rac)-l-phenylethanol as the nucleophile. Interestingly, the ester bond closest to the polymer backbone (position A in Scheme 15) remained unaffected, whereas ester bond B reacted in up to 98% to the corresponding benzyl ester. The transesterification was not only highly chemoselective but also enantioselective. Conversion of (rac)-l-phenylethanol in the transesterification reaction amounted to a maximum conversion of 47.9% of the (/ )-alcohol, and only at the ester position B. 

This reaction provides a method for preparation of optically active homoallylic alcohols (3) by use of Cl2Ti(OR)2 prepared from (S)-(—)-l-phenylethanol (1). 

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