Water → 7-hydroxy-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-2-methyl-4H-chromen-4-one

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Acetic anhydride (3 ml, 30 mmol) was added to a suspension of potassium carbonate (4.0 g, 29 mmol) and 1-(2,4-dihydroxy-phenyl)-2-(4-methoxy-phenyl)-ethanone (1.95 g, 7.5 mmol) in DMF (10 ml), and the resulting suspension heated at 115° C. for ˜90 mins. The mixture was allowed to cool and poured into water (200 ml), to give an off-white precipitate. The solids were removed by filtration and washed with water (100 ml) and diethyl ether (2×40 ml), to give 7-hydroxy-3-(4-methoxy-phenyl)-2-methyl-chromen-4-one as an off-white powder, dried in vacuo, (1.65 g)

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