Dimethyl Sulfoxide → 1-(4-Chlorophenyl)-2-cyclopropylethan-1-one

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Oxalyl chloride (14.3 ml, 160 mmol) was added dropwise to a stirred solution of dimethylsulphoxide (14.3 ml, 200 mmol) in dry dichloromethane (350 ml) at -78° C. After 15 minutes 1-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-cyclopropylethanol (12.98 g, 66 mmol) in dry dichloromethane (120 ml) was added to the mixture. After an hour triethylamine (71.4 ml), 510 mmol) was added and the mixture warmed to room temperature and poured into water. The mixture was extracted with dichloromethane and the combined extracts washed with water, dried and evaporated in vacuo to give crude 1-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-cyclopropylethanone which was used without further purification.

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