Water from ethyl acetate

Dissolve 10 g. of chloro- 2,4-dinitrobenzenet in 50 ml. of dioxan in a 250 ml. conical flask. Dilute 8 ml. of hydrazine hydrate with an equal volume of water and add this slowly with shaking to the dioxan solution, keeping the temperature between zo " and 25°. Heat under reflux for 10 minutes to complete the reaction and then add 5 ml. of ethanol and heat again for 5 minutes. Cool and filter oflF the orange 2,4-dinitrophenylhydra-zine. Recrystallise the dry product from ethyl acetate m.p. 200° (decomp.). Yield, 7 g. 

Azlactone of a-acetylaminocinnamic acid. Warm a mixture of 29 g. of acetylglycine, 39-5 g. (37 -5 ml.) of redistilled benzaldehyde (Section IV,115), 15 g. of anhydrous sodium acetate and 67 g. (62 ml.) of acetic anhydride (95 per cent.) in a 500 ml. conical flask (equipped with a reflux condenser) on a water bath with occasional stirring until solution is complete (10-20 minutes). Boil the resulting solution for 1 hour, cool and leave in a refrigerator overnight. Stir the sohd mass of yellow crystals with 60 ml. of cold water, transfer to a Buchner funnel and wash well with cold water. (If the odour of benzaldehyde is stih apparent, wash with a little ether.) Recrystallise from carbon tetrachloride or from ethyl acetate-hght petroleum. The yield of azlactone, m.p. 150°, is 35 g. 

Norethindrone may be recrystakhed from ethyl acetate (111). It is soluble in acetone, chloroform, dioxane, ethanol, and pyridine slightly soluble in ether, and insoluble in water (112,113). Its crystal stmcture has been reported (114), and extensive analytical and spectral data have been compiled (115). Norethindrone acetate can be recrystakhed from methylene chloride/hexane (111). It is soluble in acetone, chloroform, dioxane, ethanol, and ether, and insoluble in water (112). Data for identification have been reported (113). The preparation of norethindrone (28) has been described (see Fig. 5). Norethindrone acetate (80) is prepared by the acylation of norethindrone. Norethindrone esters have been described ie, norethindrone, an appropriate acid, and trifiuoroacetic anhydride have been shown to provide a wide variety of norethindrone esters including the acetate (80) and enanthate (81) (116). 

Aminophenol. This compound forms white plates when crystallized from water. The base is difficult to maintain in the free state and deteriorates rapidly under the influence of air to pink-purple oxidation products. The crystals exist in two forms. The a-form (from alcohol, water, or ethyl acetate) is the more stable and has an orthorhombic pyramidal stmcture containing four molecules per unit cell. It has a density of 1.290 g/cm (1.305 also quoted). The less stable P-form (from acetone) exists as acicular crystals that turn into the a-form on standing they are orthorhombic bipyramidal or pyramidal and have a hexamolecular unit (15,16,24) (see Tables 3—5). 

Stannous Oxalate. Stannous oxalate, Sn(C20 (mol wt 206.71, dec 280°C, sp gr 3.56 at 18°C), is a white crystalline powder, is soluble in hot concentrated hydrochloric acid and mixtures of oxaHc acid and ammonium oxalate, and is insoluble in water, toluene, ethyl acetate, dioctyl phthalate, THF, isomeric heptanes, and acetone (171). It is prepared by precipitation from a solution of stannous chloride and oxaHc acid and is stable indefinitely. 

Acetonedicarboxylic acid [542-05-2] M 146.1, m 138" (dec), pK 3.10. Crystd from ethyl acetate and stored over P2O5. Decarboxylates in hot water. 

Crystd from water or ethyl acetate. Dried in a vacuum over P2O5. 

Adipic acid [124-04-9] M 146.1, m 154 , pK 4.44, pK 5.45. For use as a volumetric standard, adipic acid was crystd once from hot water with the addition of a little animal charcoal, dried at 120 for 2h, then recrystd from acetone and again dried at 120 for 2h. Other purification procedures include crystn from ethyl acetate and from acetone/petroleum ether, fusion followed by filtration and crystn from the melt, and preliminary distn under vac. 

Crystd from ethyl acetate or water containing HCl [EXPLODES... 

Thymine [65-71-4] M 126.1, m 326", pK 9.82. Crystd from ethyl acetate or water. Purified by preparative (2mm thick) TLC plates of silica gel, eluting with ethyl acetate/isopropanol/water (75 16 9, v/v Rp 0.75). Spot localised by uv lamp, cut from plate, placed in MeOH, shaken and filtered through a millipore filter, then rotary evapd. [Infante et al. J Chem Soc, Faraday Trans 1 68 1586 1973.]... 

Commercial colchicine usually consists of yellow flakes or powder, or crystals containing chloroform of crystallisation. It can be crystallised from water as a trihydrate, or from ethyl acetate (Clewer et al. ) forming soft, pale yellow needles, m.p. 155-7°, — 120-8° (CHClg) or... 

Cyano-3 -hydroxy-5a-pregnan-20-one A suspension of 5a-pregnane-3, 20-dione (2 g) in ethanol (90 ml) is treated with acetone cyanohydrin (4 ml) and three drops of triethylamine and stirred at room temperature until complete dissolution. After 3 hr, the solution is diluted with 200 ml of water, acidified with acetic acid and the crystalline precipitate is thoroughly washed with water and dried under vacuum to give 2.1 g (97%) of product mp 172-178° (dec). A sample recrystallized from ethyl acetate melts at 176-179° (dec) [a]p 86° (ethyl acetate). 

Commercial Sodium Acetylide A suspension (30 ml) of sodium acete-lide (20% in exylene) is centrifuged and the solid brown sodium acetylide is taken up in 25 ml of dimethyl sulfoxide. To this is added a solution of 5 g of 5a-hydroxy-6j5-methylandrostane-3-17,dione 3-ethylene ketal in 85 ml of dimethyl sulfoxide. After stirring at room temperature overnight, ice is added and the solution diluted to about 250 ml. The tan precipitate is collected, washed with water and dried yield 4.8 g mp 202-204°. Crystallization from ethyl acetate gives a product of mp 204-206°. 

Bromo-4-methoxy-A-homo-estra-2,4,5(10)-trien-17-one (44 0. 2g), is dissolved in formic acid, 2 ml of boron trifluoride etherate is added and the mixture is stirred vigorously at 0° for 2 hr. A brown mass ca. 0.12 g) is obtained after evaporation of the solvents at reduced pressure. This material is diluted with water and extracted with chloroform. The chloroform extracts are washed successively with water and saturated salt solution, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and evaporated at reduced pressure to give 95 mg of a product which is purified by filtration through a column of neutral alumina and crystallization of the residue after evaporation of the solvent from ethyl acetate-petroleum ether. The resulting A-homo-estra-l(10),2,4a-triene-4,17-dione (45), mp 143-146°, is identical to the tropone (45) prepared from monoadduct 17-ketone (43a). 

A-Homo-estra-, 4, )-triene-3, l-dione (50). A solution of bromo ketone (49 0.2 g), silver perchlorate (0.5 g) and 20% aqueous acetone (30 ml) is heated at reflux with stirring for 30 min and then allowed to cool to room temperature. The mixture is filtered to remove precipitated silver bromide (ca. 0.19 g) and the filtrate is diluted with water (200 ml) and then extracted with chloroform. The chloroform extracts are washed, successively with water, 5% sodium bicarbonate solution, water and saturated salt solution. After being dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, the solvents are removed at reduced pressure to give a solid. Recrystallization from ethyl acetate gives A-homo-estra-l,4,5(10)-triene-3,17-dione (50 0.17 g) mp 193-197°. 

Hydroxy-B-homo-5a-cholestan-7-one acetate (54b) A solution of 3/3-hydroxy-5a-cholestan-7-one acetate (51b 5 g mp 146-148°) in dioxane-ethanol (100 ml, 1 1) is placed in a 250 ml three-necked flask equipped with a mechanical stirrer and thermometer and is cooled to 0° (iee-salt bath). Powdered potassium cyanide (7.3 g) is added portionwise with stirring. Acetic acid (8 ml) is then added dropwise with constant stirring over 30 min. The resultant mixture is stirred for 1 hr at 0° C and for an additional 2 hr at room temperature. It is then poured into ice water (200 g ice, 100 ml water) and after standing for 1 hr the precipitate is collected by filtration. The product is dissolved in ether (100 ml), the ether solution is washed with 5% sodium bicarbonate, water and dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate. The filtrate is evaporated at reduced pressure and the solid residue (5.1 g) is crystallized from ethyl acetate (30 ml) to yield 2.8 g of cyanohydrin (52b) mp 160-164° repeated crystallization from the same solvent gives a product mp 164-167°. An alternative method of isolation of the cyanohydrin is used when 100 g or larger quantities are worked up. The reaction mixture is poured directly into a mixture of ice water and sodium bicarbonate, the precipitate (mp 155-156°) is washed well with water, dried and used directly for the next step. 

Chloro-2-hydrazino-4-phenylquinoline A stirred mixture of 2,6-dichloro-4-phenylquino-line 12.7 g,0.01 mol) and hydrazine hydrate (6.8 g) was refluxed under nitrogen for 1 hour and concentrated in vacuo. The residue was suspended in warm water, and the solid was collected by filtration,dried and recrystallized from ethyl acetate-Skelly B hexanes to give 1.81 g (67% yield) of 6[Pg.46]

D) Preparation of 2-(1-Hydroxyethyi)-3-Methyi-5-(2-Oxo-2,5-Dihydro-4-Furyi)Benzo[b] Furan (3574 CB) 13,2 grams of compound 3556 CB of which the preparation is described in (C) are treated successively with 66 ml of methylene chloride, 27 ml of methanol and, with stirring, 1.6 grams of sodium borohydride added in stages. The reaciton takes 1 hour. The mixture is poured into water acidified with a sufficient amount of acetic acid, the solvents are stripped under vacuum, the crystalline product removed, washed with water, and recrystallized from ethyl acetate. Yield 90%. MP <=158°C. 

E) Preparation of 2-( 1-Succinyloxyethyl)-3-Methyl-5-(2-Oxo-2,5-Dihydro-4-Furyl)Bemo[b] -Furan (409 CBj 8.65 grams of compound 3574 CB in 43 ml of pyridine are warmed for 30 minutes, on a water bath, with succinic anhydride. At the end of this, the pyridine is stripped off in vacuo. The mixture is treated with dilute sulfuric acid and with ether, the crystalline product filtered off, washed with water and with ether, and recrystallized from ethyl acetate (9.35 grams). MPq = 144°C (measured after drying at 90°C and 0.1 mm). Yield 77%. The product yields an equimolecular compound with morpholine. MPc= 136°C (from ethyl acetate). 

A suspension of 45 g 3-phenoxycarbonyloxy-1 -methyl-7-chloro-5-pheny -1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one in 450 ml methanol is treated with stirring, with 43 ml of a solution of dimethylamine in methanol (containlng31 gdimethylamine in 100 ml). Stirring ismaintained at 20°C to 25°C during 5 hours. The reaction mixture is filtered, and the filtrate is diluted with 450 ml water. The precipitate thus formed, is 3-(N,N-dimethylcarbamoyloxy)-1-methy -7-chloro-5-phenyl-1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one, which is collected on a filter, dried and recrystallized from ethyl acetate, and has a melting point of 173°C to 174°C. 

Then, 1-(3-acetylthio-2-methylpropanoyl)-L-proline is produced. The 1-(3-acetylthio-3-methyl-propanoyl)-L-proline tert-butyl ester (7.8 g) is dissolved in a mixture of anisole (55 ml) and trifluoroacetic acid (110 ml). After one hour storage at room temperature the solvent Is removed in vacuo and the residue is precipitated several times from ether-hexane. The residue (6.8 g) is dissolved in acetonitrile (40 ml) and dicyclohexylamine (4.5 ml) is added. The crystalline salt is boiled with fresh acetonitrile (100 ml), chilled to room temperature and filtered, yield 3 g, MP 187°C to 188°C. This material is recrystallized from isopropanol [ttlo -67° (C 1.4, EtOH). The crystalline dicyclohexylamine salt is suspended in a mixture of 5% aqueous potassium bisulfate and ethyl acetate. The organic phase is washed with water and concentrated to dryness. The residue is crystallized from ethyl acetate-hexane to yield the 1-(3-acetylthio-2-D-methylpropanoyl-L-proline, MP83°Cto 85°C. 

Finally,Captopril is produced. Thethioester (0.85g) isdissolved in5.5N methanolicammonia and the solution is kept at room temperature for 2 hours. The solvent is removed in vacuo and the residue Is dissolved in water, applied to an ion exchange column on the H cycle (Dowex 50, analytical grade) and eluted with water. The fractions that give positive thiol reaction are pooled and freeze dried. The residue Is crystallized from ethyl acetate-hexane, yield 0.3 g. The 1 -(3-mercapto-2-D-methylpropanoyl)-L-proline has a melting point of 103°C to 104°C. 

Aminocephalosporanic acid (5.00 g) which passed through a 100-mesh sieve was suspended in boiling ethyl acetate (200 ml), and 2-thienylacetyl chloride (Cagniant, Bull. Soc. Chim. France, 1949,847) (4.42 g, 1.5 equiv.) was added in ethyl acetate (20 ml). The mixture was boiled under reflux for 40 minutes, cooled, and filtered. Aniline (5.03 ml) was added, and after 1 hour the mixture was extracted with 3% sodium hydrogen carbonate solution (1 x 150 ml, 2 X 100 ml, 1 x 50 ml) and the alkaline extracts washed with ethyl acetate (3 x 100 ml). The aqueous solution was acidified to pH 1.2, and extracted with ethyl acetate (2 x 150 ml). The ethyl acetate extract was washed with water (4 x 40 ml), dried (MgS04), and concentrated in vacuo to low volume. The crude 7-2 -thienylacetamidocephalosporanic acid (2.5 g) which separated was collected by filtration. Evaporation of the filtrate gave a further 2.68 g (71%) of the product, which was purified by crystallization from ethyl acetate, then aqueous acetone, MP 150°Cto 157°C (decomp.). 

A solution of 0.60 g of chromic acid in 1.2 cc of water and 11 cc of acetic acid is added to a solution containing about 1.2 g of 3(0 ),20-dihvdroxv-20-cvano-21-acetoxy-11-keto-pregnane at room temperature. After 1 hour, water is added and the product, which precipitates, is filtered and recrystallized from ethyl acetate to produce 3,1 l-diketo-20-hvdroxy-20-cyano-21-acetoxv-pregnane dec. 214° to 217°C. 

The crude product obtained above is dried in high vacuum and then dissolved in 4 cc of pyridine. About 3 cc of acetic anhydride is added. The mixture is then heated on the steam bath for about 15 minutes and then evaporated to dryness in vacuo. About 20 cc of water is added. The product is then extracted into 150 cc of ethyl acetate, washed with saturated sodium bicarbonate solution and water, and dried over sodium sulfate. The solvent is removed in vacuo to give a residue which is crystallized from ethyl acetate-benzene to yield about 250 mg of 11/3,17a,21-trihydroxy-6,16a-dimethyl-20-oxo-2 -phenyl-4,6-pregnadieno-[3,2-c] pyrazole 21-aCetate, as described in U.S. Patent 3,300,483. 

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