Triethylamine → 5-methoxy-2,3-dihydro-1H-isoindol-1-one

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Methanol (53 mL) and NEt3 (6.90 mL, 49.5 mmol) were added to 2-bromo-5-methoxybenzonitrile (5.25 g, 24.76 mmol) and Pd-dppf (Heraeus) (0.362 g, 0.495 mmol) in a pressure tube. The mixture was stirred under 60 psi of Carbon Monoxide at 80° C. for 8 hr. HPLC analysis (starting material retention time 3.24 min., product retention time 2.82 min.) indicated clean and complete conversion. The obtained solution was concentrated down to a light orange color solid, 6.66 g.

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