Sodium Carbonate → Methyl 2-(4-fluorophenyl)-4-methylbenzoate

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Tetrakis(triphenylphosphine) palladium (9 g; 7.8 mmol) and ethanol (780 ml) was added to a suspension of methyl 4-methyl-2-trifluoromethanesulphonyloxybenzoate (58 g; 0.195 mol), 2M aqueous solution of sodium carbonate (250 ml; 0.5 mol), 4-fluorophenylboronic acid (30 g ; 0.214 mol) and lithium chloride (16.5 g ; 0.39 mol) in toluene (1.65 ml), under an argon atmosphere, The mixture was refluxed for 4 hours, diluted with ethyl acetate (1 l) and washed with aqueous sodium hydroxide solution 1N (1 l). The organic phase was evaporated and the residue purified by flash column chromatography using ethyl acetatelpetroleum ether (95:5) to give methyl 2-(4-fluorophenyl)-4-methylbenzoate (46.8 g; 99%).

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