Adkins, Homer published the artcileCatalytic dehydrogenation of hydroaromatic compounds in benzene. II, Application In Synthesis of 1949-41-3, the publication is Journal of the American Chemical Society (1949), 2955-7, database is CAplus.
cf. C. A. 35, 4371.3. The method of aromatizing hydroaromatic compounds over Ni or Pt catalysts with C6H6 as a H acceptor was applied to several substituted hydronaphthalenes and hydrophenanthrenes. Aromatization in some cases involved the rupture of linkages to a quaternary C. The Ni-on-kieselguhr catalyst aromatized through catalysis of migration, as in the formation of phenanthrene (I) from 1′,2′,3′,4′-tetrahydrospiro(cyclopentane-1,1′-naphthalene) (II). The Pt and Ni-on-Ni chromite catalysts aromatized through elimination of an alkyl group on the quaternary C. Decahydro-2-naphthol (III), b28 140-3¡ã, n25D 1.4958-1.5000, was prepared by hydrogenation of 2-naphthol (IV) over Raney Ni at 200¡ã. III (40 g.) was oxidized to octahydro-2(1H)-naphthalenone (V) (24 g.), b27 123.5-25¡ã, n25D 1.4885-905. 2-Methyldecahydronaphthalene (VI), b. 203-5¡ã, n25D 1.4712, and the 2-Et homolog (VII), b7 85-7¡ã n25D 1.4727, were prepared by hydrogenation at 200¡ã over Raney Ni, from 2-C10H7Me (VIII) and 2-C10H7COMe, resp. 1,1-Dimethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene (IX), b12 94-5¡ã, n25D 1.5262; 4a-methyl-1,2,3,4,4a,-9,10,10a-octahydrophenanthrene (X), b13 150¡ã, n25D 1.5510; and 4a-isopropyl-2-methyl-1,2,3,4,4a,9,10,10a-octahydrophenanthrene (XI), n25D 1.5435, were prepared as previously described (Bogert, et al., C.A. 28, 3071.2; Perlman, et al., C.A. 31, 1395.7; Orcutt and Bogert, C.A. 34,752.9). Ph(CH2)3Br (XII) (160 g.) in 300 cc. dry ether was added to 20 g. Mg during 50 min., the mixture refluxed 50 min., 72 cc. MeCOEt in 72 cc. dry ether added during 20 min., the mixture refluxed 30 min., the product hydrolyzed with saturated NH4Cl, and the ether solution washed twice, dried, and distilled, yielding the alc. (XIII) (125 g.), b23 154-63¡ã, n25D 1.4970-1.5050. To 85 g. XIII at 15¡ã was added 85 cc. cold, concentrated H2SO4 dropwise with stirring (the temperature kept below 25¡ã), the mixture diluted after 10 min. with water and ether, and the ether solution washed with Na2CO3, dried, and distilled from Na, yielding (after redistillation through a modified Widmer column) 34 g. 1-methyl-1-ethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydronaphthalene (XIV), b23 127-7.5¡ã, n25D 1.5255. XII (125 g.) in 225 cc. dry ether and 72 cc. MeCOPh in 70 cc. ether (added during 20 min.) were refluxed 1 hr., the product hydrolyzed with dilute H2SO4, the ether solution washed with water, the ether distilled, and the crude alc. cyclized as described above, yielding (after redistillation over Na) 67 g. 1-methyl-1-phenyl analog (XIVA) of XIV, b1 129-31¡ã, n25D 1.5853, MD calculated 71.32, found 71.6. Cyclopentanone (71 cc.) in 70 cc. dry ether added to 160 g. XII in ether during 30 min., the mixture refluxed 1 hr., the product hydrolyzed with saturated NH4Cl, and the ether solution washed with water, dried, and distilled, yielded an alc. b25 150-70¡ã, n25D 1.5200, which, cyclized by treatment with an equal volume of cold, concentrated H2SO4, yielded (after distillation from Na) 23.1 g. II, b24 158¡ã, n25D 1.5535. Powd. K (19.5 g.) in 500 cc. xylene was cooled, 87 g. MeCH(CO2Me)2 (XV) added during 10 min., and, after 1 hr., 93 g. PhCH2CH2Br (XVA) added, the mixture stirred and refluxed 12 hrs. in an oil bath at 150-60¡ã, and the xylene solution washed with water, dried, and distilled, yielding 85 g. di-Et methylphenethylmalonate, b17 188-92¡ã, n25D 1.4818-20, 93 g. of which was hydrolyzed by refluxing it 90 min. with 56 g. KOH in 200 cc. 50% aqueous alc., water added, the alc. distilled off, the solution acidified with concentrated HCl, the precipitated acid dissolved in ether, the aqueous solution extracted with ether, the extracts combined, washed, and dried, and the ether distilled; the acid, heated to 180¡ã and distilled after the evolution of CO2, yielded 48.9 g. ¦Ã-phenyl-¦Á-methylbutyric acid (XVI), b17 176-8¡ã, n25D 1.5093-1.5100. PCl5 (80 g.) was added to 53.8 g. XVI in 250 cc. dry C6H6, the solution refluxed 30 min., cooled, 70 cc. SnCl4 in 70 cc. C6H6 added slowly, the mixture poured after 25 min. into 250 cc. concentrated HCl, and the C6H6 solution separated, washed with three 100-cc. portions of 10% HCl and three 100-cc. portions of 5% Na2CO3, dried, and distilled, yielding 34.2 g. 3,4-dihydro-2-methyl-1(2H)-naphthalenone (XVII), b16 136-8¡ã, n25D 1.5538. 2-Et homolog (XVIII) was similarly prepared from 20 g. K, 94 g. Et2C(CO2Et)2, and 93 g. XVA, which yielded 70 g. di-Et ethylphenethylmalonate (XIX), b4 160-80¡ã. The yield was much lower when C6H6 was used instead of xylene. XIX (102.8 g.) on hydrolysis and decarboxylation yielded 62.5 g. of the ¦Á-Et homolog (XX) of XVI, b3 146-61¡ã, n25D 1.5010-1.5055. XX (10.3 g.) heated to 90¡ã for 2.5 hrs. in 30 cc. concentrated H2SO4 on the steam bath, cooled, diluted with water, extracted with ether, the ether solution washed with Na2CO3, and the ether removed, yielded 7.8 g. XVIII, b15 147-8¡ã, n25D 1.5460-1.5458. XVII (20 g.) in 50 cc. dry ether was added during 20 min. to 17.5 g. EtBr and 3.9 g. Mg in 70 cc. dry ether, the mixture refluxed 6 hrs., the product hydrolyzed with ice-cold dilute H2SO4, the ether solution washed with dilute H2SO4, then Na2CO3, and dried, and the ether removed, yielding 16.1 g. 1-ethyl-2-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1-naphthol (XXII), m. 65-7¡ã (from Me2CO at -70¡ã). 1-Ethyl-2-methyl-3,4-dihydronaphthalene (XXIII), prepared in 4.47-g. yield by dehydrating the filtrates from the recrystallization of XXII, removing the Me2CO, and distilling the residue from KHSO4, b13 121-7¡ã, n25D 1.5660. XVIII (21.8 g.) in 50 cc. dry ether added to 23 g. MeI and 3.9 g. Mg in 70 cc. ether, the mixture refluxed 30 min., the product decomposed with saturated NH4Cl, the ether solution washed with water and dried, and the ether removed, yielded 16.6 g. 1-methyl-2-ethyl isomer (XXIV) of XXIII, b14 132¡ã (from Na), n25D 1.5658. The m.p. (148¡ã) of the trinitrobenzene derivative (XXV) of 1,2-C10H6Me2 (XXVI) is the same as that of a mixture of 30% XXV and 70% of the trinitrobenzene derivative (XXVII), m. 154¡ã, of 1-C10H7Me (XXVIII); mixtures containing 80 and 90% XXVII m. 149.5¡ã and 151¡ã, resp. The m.p. (or b.p.) of some of the above compounds and of 1-ethyl- (XXIX), 2-ethyl- (XXX), 1-methyl-2-ethyl-(XXXI), and 2-methyl-1-ethylnaphthalenes (XXXII), 2-methylphenanthrene (XXXIII), as also the m.p. of their (a) picrate, (b) C6H3(NO2)3 derivative, and (c) styphnate, are listed below. XXVIII -22¡ã, n20D 1.6180, (a) 141-2¡ã, (b) 153-4¡ã; VIII 37-8¡ã, n25D 1.6086, (a) 115-16¡ã, (b) 123¡ã; XXVI b15 139-40¡ã, n16.6D 1.6105, (a) 129.5-30.5¡ã, (b) 147-8¡ã, (c) 142-3¡ã; XXIX -15¡ã, n15D 1.6089, (a) 98.5¡ã; XXX -7.5¡ã, n15D 1.6028, (a) 76-7¡ã, (b) 88-9¡ã; XXXI b11 140-5¡ã, (a) 97¡ã, (b) 98.5-9.5¡ã, (c) 114¡ã; XXXII b11 135-45¡ã, (a) 110-11¡ã, (b) 117.5-19.5¡ã, (c) 141¡ã; XXXIII 55-6¡ã, (a) 118-19¡ã. The dehydrogenations were made on about 5 g. of compound in 20-40 cc. C6H6 for 10-12 hrs., in chrome-vanadium steel vessels having voids of 62 cc. (Pt catalysts) or 270 cc. (Ni catalysts). Below are the results (compound, g. catalyst, temperature, and product, resp.): IX, 0.5 Pt, 350¡ã, 25% XXVIII (61% no reaction); 3 Ni (CrO), 370¡ã, 38% XXVIII (50% no reaction); 3 Ni (k), 350¡ã, 35% XXVI (35% no reaction). XIV, 3Ni (CrO), 375¡ã, 35-55% XXVIII (27% no reaction). XIVA, 3 Ni (k), 350¡ã, 12% XXVIII. II, 3 Ni (k), 350¡ã, 25-40% I. X, 1 Pt, 350¡ã, 65% I. XI, 2 Ni (CrO), 350¡ã, 50% XXXIII. VI, 1 Pt, 350¡ã, 91% VIII. VII, 0.25 Pt, 350¡ã, 94% XXX. XXII, 2 Ni (k), 300¡ã, 66% XXXII. XXIV, 0.25 Pt, 300¡ã, 91% XXXI. III, 1 Pt, 275¡ã, 18% IV. V, 1 Pt, 275¡ã, 20% IV and 33% C10H8.
Journal of the American Chemical Society published new progress about 1949-41-3. 1949-41-3 belongs to catalysis-chemistry, auxiliary class Carboxylic acid,Benzene, name is 2-Methyl-4-phenylbutanoic acid, and the molecular formula is C11H14O2, Application In Synthesis of 1949-41-3.
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