Acetic Anhydride → N-(3-ethylphenyl)acetamide

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Reaction Steps

3-Ethylaniline (2 g, 0.016 mol) was added slowly in portion into neat Ac2O (8 ml) at 0° C. After removed ice bath and the reaction was stirred at room temperature for 2 hour. The solvent was removed in vacuo and extracted with EtOAc, washed with water and brine, dried over Na2SO4. Concentrated to get crude N-(3-ethylphenyl)acetamide as light yellow solid.

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