Sodium Hydroxide → 3-Chlorophthalic anhydride

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Phenyltrichlorophosphonium hexachlorophosphide (4 g, 8.8 mM) was added to phenylphosphonic dichloride (10 ml). To this solutoin, 3 nitrophthalic anhydride (1.7 g, 8.8 mM) was added. The reaction mixture was heated to 170° C. for 12 hours, then cooled to room temperature and poured onto ice. After neutralizing with 50% aqueous sodium hydroxide, the reaction was extracted with ethyl acetate. The combined ethyl acetate extracts were washed with brine, dried over magnesium sulfate, and concentrated in vacuo to give 3-chlorophthalic anhydride (1.3 g, 81 wt. % yield) as a tan solid.

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