Safrole via Friedel Craft?

[amine]

i'm curious to the possibility of synthesizing safrole from 1,3-benzodioxole and allyl bromide using the zinc method:

Post 408642

(Kinetic: "Zinc promoted Friedel-Crafts acylation", Novel Discourse).

I knows alkylations can me done this way but I am unsure whether the double bond on the allyl bromide would in some way hinder the reaction.

Thanks.

[yei]

First, you will not get only the isomer you desire, because AFAIK, the allyl chloride or bromide will also alkylate ortho to the methylenedioxy structure.

Second, using normal friedel-crafts methods will generate HBr acid, which will tend to add across the allyl double bond, and possible cause multiple alkylations and polymerization. There are ways around this:

Post 468541 (missing)

(ning: "high-yielding OTC allylation of aromatics, anyone?", Chemistry Discourse) scrubs up HX with supported K2CO3

Post 515205

(psyloxy: "TsOH - best Friedel-Crafts catalyst ever ?!", Novel Discourse) uses tosic acid to catalyze the magical alkylation

anyhow, it's not so easy as it seems.