Ethyl Acetate → HCID 22272846, compound

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Zinc (6.4 g, 98 mmol) was added little by little to a solution of the nitro compound (1.88 g, 8.18 mmol) in acetic acid (30 ml) with ice cooling. After stirring for 1 hour, the reaction solution was diluted by adding ethyl acetate thereto and the mixture was filtered off. The filtrate was neutralized with an aqueous solution of sodium carbonate and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer was washed with water and a saturated sodium chloride solution successively and dried over magnesium sulfate and the solvent was evaporated therefrom to provide 1.63 g (yield 99%) of 2-amino-4-chloro-6-isopropyl-3-methylphenol as pale yellow oil.

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