Heating of 2 ethoxynaphthalene with 1,3,5 triazine or 2,4,6 trimethyl 1,3,5 triazine in polyphosphoric acid leads to the corresponding products of mono or diacylation: 2 ethoxy naphthalene 1 carbaldehyde, 1 acetyl 2 ethoxynaphthalene, 2 ethoxynaphthalene 1,8 dicarb aldehyde, and 1,8 diacetyl 2 ethoxynaphthalene in ~60-80% yield.Key words: 2 ethoxynaphthalene 1 carbaldehyde, 1 acetyl 2 ethoxynaphthalene, 2 ethoxy naphthalene 1,8 dicarbaldehyde, 1,8 diacetyl 2 ethoxynaphthalene, 1,3,5 triazines, polyphosphoric acid.Earlier, we have shown that 1,3,5 triazines and 2,4,6 trimethyl 1,3,5 triazines in polyphosphoric acid (PPA) serve as efficient acylating reagents of some naphthalene derivatives, for example, 1H perimidine 1 and 1,8 diami nonaphthalene. 2 In the present work, we report on the reaction of 2 ethoxynaphthalene (1) with 1,3,5 triazines 2a,b in PPA.* We showed that monoformylation (acety lation) of compound 1 in this system proceeds already at room temperature and comes to a completion at 40-45 °C in case of triazine 2a and at 55-60 °C in case of 2b for 2 h. The yields of the products of monoacylation 3a and 3b under these conditions were 81 and 85%, respec tively.Further heating at 55-60 °C in case of 1,3,5 triazine and at 100-110 °C in case of 2,4,6 trimethyl 1,3,5 triazi ne for 3 h leads to the diformylation (diacetylation) pro ducts. After hydrolysis of the reaction mixture, 1,8 di formyl and 1,8 diacetyl 2 ethoxynaphthalenes (4a,b) we re isolated in 63 and 79% yield, respectively (Scheme 1).
Scheme 2 R = H (a), Me (b)* PPA with 86% content of P 2 O 5 , obtained by known procedure, 3 was used. Scheme 1 i. PPA. R = H (a), Me (b)