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Chemical Properties

yellow to light brown fine crystalline powder

Uses

6-Methoxy-1-tetralone is a reagent useful in the synthesis of (2-(furanyl)vinyl)-1-tetralone chalcones which possesses anticancer agents and inducers of apoptosis.

Synthesis Reference(s)

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 64, p. 94, 1942 DOI: 10.1021/ja01253a025Tetrahedron Letters, 9, p. 2917, 1968 DOI: 10.1016/S0040-4039(00)89611-2

Synthesis

The synthesis of?6-methoxy-1-tetralone is as follows:Eaton's reagent (1.00 mL, 5.31 mmol) was added slowly to a stirred solution of methyl 4-(3-methoxyphenyl)butanoate (4; 0.37g, 1.78 mmol) in DCE (1 mL). The resulting mixture was stirred at 75 °C for 2h under N2 atmosphere. Then, the reaction mixture was allowed to reach room temperature, and was poured over ice-water and extracted with EtOAc (3 × 15 mL). The combined organic extracts were washed successively with brine (2 × 15 mL) and H2O (2 × 20 mL), filtered over Na2SO4 and concentrated under reduced pressure. The resulting brownish oil was fractionated by column chromatography (silica gel, EtOAc-hexanes, 1:9) to obtain 6-methoxy-1-tetralone as ayellowish oil; yield: 0.28 g (91%).