VERFAHREN ZUR HERSTELLUNG VON 3-HYDROXY-TETRAHYDROFURAN

摘要

An industrially advantageous process for preparing high-purity 3-hydroxytetrahydrofuran easily and simply, which comprises converting a 4-halo-3-hydroxybutyric acid ester into a 4-halo-1,3-butanediol by reducing the ester with a boron hydride compound and/or an aluminum hydride compound in an organic solvent incompatible with water and treating the obtained reaction mixture with an acid and water, recovering an aqueous solution containing the diol, conducting the cyclization of the diol in this aqueous solution, extracting the resulting solution with an organic solvent incompatible with water, and isolating 3-hydroxytetrahydrofuran from the extract through concentration and/or distillation.