Acetic Acid → HCID 58575158, compound

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Reaction Steps

900 mg of benzyl cyclopropyl(hydroxy)acetate, 9.0 ml of pyridine, and 820 μL, of anhydrous acetic acid were added, followed by stirring at room temperature overnight. To the reaction mixture were added water and ethyl acetate, followed by extraction with ethyl acetate. The organic layer was washed with a saturated aqueous sodium hydrogen carbonate solution and saturated brine, and then dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, and the solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure to obtain 1.45 g of benzyl acetoxy(cyclopropyl)acetate.

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