Hydrochloric Acid → 2-Fluoro-4-(1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethoxy)aniline

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0.60 Gram of 4-acetylamino-3-fluoro-1-(1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethoxy)benzene and 10 ml of a 20% aqueous hydrochloric acid were added to a reactor and stirred under reflux for 2 hours. After cooling the reaction solution, a 5% aqueous sodium hydrogencarbonate solution was added to make the solution weakly alkaline. The reaction solution was then extracted with two 100-ml portions of diethyl ether. The ether layers were combined, dried and concentrated to obtain a yellow oily product as a residue. This oily product was subjected to chromatography on silica gel to obtain 0.40 g of 2-fluoro-4-(1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethoxy)aniline.

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