Synthesis
Under nitrogen protection, 117 g (0.4 mol) of methyl 3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionate and 126.6 g of anhydrous methanol were added to the reactor and heated to reflux. Subsequently, 120 mL of 30% aqueous NaOH solution was added slowly dropwise and the reaction was kept for 2 hours. Upon completion of the reaction, 80 ml of 10 wt% HCl solution was added for neutralization, stirred and cooled to room temperature. The reaction mixture was filtered and the filter cake was washed with deionized water to neutral. Finally, the filter cake was dried at 110 °C for 4 h to give 115 g of the white solid product 3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxybenzenepropanoic acid (A1).
References
[1] Patent: US4713475, 1987, A
[2] Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Division of Chemical Science (English Translation), 1982, vol. 31, # 7, p. 1417 - 1420
[3] Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, 1982, # 7, p. 1594 - 1597
[4] Patent: CN104211616, 2016, B. Location in patent: Paragraph 0064-0066