Ethyl chloroacetate → Glycine, N-(4-chlorophenyl)-, ethyl ester

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Sodium acetate trihydrate (6 g) was added to a solution of commercial ethyl chloroacetate (6.2 g) and commercial 4-chloroaniline (6.4 g) in ethanol (5 ml). The mixture was heated to reflux for 5 h. After cooling in an ice bath the product precipitates. The solid was collected by suction filtration and washed with water. The still wet product was recrystallised from ethanol to give ethyl N-(4-chlorophenyl)glycinate (5.99 g) as greyish crystals.

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