Sulfuric Acid → (4-Fluoro-3-iodophenyl)methanol

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The product from Example 89A (7.0 g, 50 mmol) in water (100 mL) at 0 ° C. was treated slowly with concentrated sulfuric acid (30 mL) at a rate to maintain the temperature below 10 ° C., then treated dropwise with an aqueous solution of sodium nitrite (3.45 g, 50 mmol). This solution was then added to a solution of potassium iodide (8.13 g, 50 mmol) in water (15 mL), heated to 60 ° C. for 2 hours, cooled, extracted with methylene chloride, the organics washed with 10% sodium hydroxide, 1M sodium thiosulfate, 10% hydrochloric acid, aqueous sodium bicarbonate, dried (sodium sulfate), filtered and solvent evaporated. The material was purified by flash chromatography over silica gel (ethyl acetate/hexane 7:3) to provide 6.4 g of the title compound. 1HNMR (CDCl3) δ 1.69 (t, 1H), 4.66 (d, 2H), 7.05 (t, 1H), 7.60 (d, 1H), 7.78 (dd, 1H).

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