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1-(2-fluorophenyl)-2-nitropropane
4,15g NaBH4 stirred happily in 50ml EtOAc and 10ml EtOH at 15°C. 5g 1-(2-fluorophenyl)-2-nitropropene was added in small portions. Be careful here! The first 250mg or so caused a violent bubbling, much more than the earlier ones. The temp rose 8°C from that small portion. Wierd! When 1/3 had been added the suspension turned to a thick white paste which had to be diluted with more EtOH. So another 10ml EtOH was added. Kept on adding happily, but kept a close eye on the temp. When 2/3 was added, another 10ml EtOH had to be added. Paste again! The total amount of EtOH added was 30ml. This will cause a problem in the workup since it will carry the ester and some product over to the water phase. This time I destroyed the borohydride with dropwise addition of diluted acetic acid to the rxn vessel. When this was done, 100ml toluene was added together with 50ml brine. The solvent layer washed two times with water, once again with brine, dried and stripped of solvents in a rotovap.
Yield; 4,3g (84,9%) 1-(2-fluorphenyl)-2-nitropropane as a clear yellow oil. Purity; 97% (HPLC)
1-(2,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)-2-nitropropane
25,3g (100mmol) 1-(2,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)-2-nitropropene was added portionwise to a suspension of 11,4g (300mmol) NaBH4 in 150ml AcOEt and 43,2ml (1,2mol) EtOH @ 20-25 deg C. An ice-water bath needed to cool the reaction mixture. The addition took 25 minutes. It was the allowed to stir at room temp for an additional 20min. Excess borohydride was destroyed with diluted acetic acid. When gas evolution ceased 100ml toluene and 150ml brine was added. The organic phase was washed twice with water (2x100ml) and once again with 100ml brine. The solvent was dried with MgSO4 and stripped off in a rotovap. The residue solidified to a clear yellow cake. This cake was dissolved in 150ml MeOH which gave a bright yellow solution. To this solution 500ml ice-cold water was added. This gave in 5min a thick slurry of colorless fluffy crystals which were filtered off and dried.
Yield 23,7g (92,9%) 1-(2,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)-2-nitropropane