Gustavo_Marzullo
Harmless
Posts: 3
Registered: 20-3-2017
Location: Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Member Is Offline
Mood: No Mood
|
|
Mysterious reaction
Does somebody know what kind of reaction is going on here? At a first glance I thought that was a Hoesch reaction but it doesn't use paraformaldehyde.
It has everything for a Hoesch reaction but has the paraformaldehyde as a intruder. Maybe it's two reactions yielding the same product? Maybe it's a
variation of the Vilsmeier–Haack reaction? What do you think, guys?
|
|
Crowfjord
Hazard to Others
Posts: 390
Registered: 20-1-2013
Location: Pacific Northwest
Member Is Offline
Mood: Ever so slowly crystallizing...
|
|
Like the Vilsmeier-Haack, it is a formylation. This looks like a variant of the magnesium-mediated formylation of phenol, albeit less amateur friendly due to the acetonitrile and triethylamine.
[Edited on 18-9-2017 by Crowfjord]
|
|
gdflp
|
Thread Moved 18-9-2017 at 14:22 |