Iodine → Ethyl 4'-hydroxy-3'-iodo-1,1'-biphenyl-3-carboxylate

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The product from Example 143A (7.71 g, 31.8 mmol) was dissolved into N,N-dimethylformamide (30 mL), diluted with concentrated aqueous ammonia (320 mL), and treated with a solution of potassium iodide (27.72 g, 167 mmol) and iodine (8.48 g, 33.4 mmol) in water (100 mL) all at once. After the mixture was stirred for one hour, the ammonia was removed under reduced pressure on a rotary evaporator. The remaining solution was neutralized to pH 7 with aqueous hydrochloric acid, diluted with EtOAc (200 mL), worked up as usual, dried (Na2SO4), concentrated, and chromatographed on silica with a 33 to 100% gradient of CH2Cl2/hexanes to provide the title compound as a white microcrystalline solid (37% yield). 1HNMR (300 MHz, d6-DMSO) δ 1.35 (t, 3 H), 4.35 (q, 2H), 7.00 (d, 1 H), 7.53-7.60 (m, 2 H), 7.84-7.91 (m, 2 H), 7.97 (d, 1 H), 8.08 (dd, 1 H), 10.55 (bs, 1 H).

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