Acetic Acid → Ethyl 3-anilinobut-2-enoate

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Reaktionsschritte

The title compound is commercially available. A mixture of aniline (9.785 mL, 107.4 mmol), ethyl acetoacetate (13.69 mL, 107.4 mmol), and acetic acid (0.6 mL, 10 mmol) was stirred at ambient temperature overnight. It was partitioned between heptane (50 mL) and sat. aq. NaHCO3 solution (50 mL). The organic layer was dried and evaporated to give the title compound of >90% purity that was used in the next steps without further purification.

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