Water → HCID 53939659, compound

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To a suspension of 1.39 g (3 mmol) of 2-iodo-N-(2-iodophenyl)benzeneacetamide in 30 ml of tetrahydrofuran-dichloromethane (1:1) is added 3.75 ml of 2.0 molar borane-dimethylsulfide in tetrahydrofuran. The solution is stirred 1 hour at room temperature and then refluxed for 16 hours. The mixture is cooled and water slowly added dropwise until gas evolution ceases. The volatile are removed under vacuum and the aqueous residue made alkaline with 2N sodium hydroxide. The mixture is extracted with ether (50 ml) and the extract is washed with brine and dried (Na2SO4). The solution is filtered through a thin pad of hydrous magnesium silicate and the filter pad is washed with ether and the filtrate evaporated. The residual solid is washed with isooctane to give 1.20 g of white solid. Recrystallization from diethylether/hexane gives white crystals.

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