Potassium Carbonate → tert-Butyl 2-(3-bromophenoxy)acetate

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Tert-butyl bromoacetate (1.88 mL, 12.69 mmol) and potassium carbonate (3.5 g, 25.38 mmol) were added to a solution of 3-bromophenol (2.09 g, 12.08 mmol) in acetone (30 mL), and the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 5 hours under a nitrogen atmosphere. The mixture was filtered, and the filtrate was evaporated to dryness to give (3-bromophenoxy)acetic acid tert-butyl ester as a colorless oil (3.53 g, 100%).

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