Dimethylacetamide → 2-Fluoro-6-methylbenzonitrile

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Reaction Conditions

Reaction Steps

A 5 L round bottom flask equipped with adapter, thermocouple and stir bar was charged with DMA (2.4 L) and degassed under vacuum and purged with N2 three times. Tetrakis was added to the mixture (35 g, 30.3 mmol) and the mixture was degassed under vacuum and purged with N2 three times. The reaction was heated to 80° C. for 30 min. 3-Fluoro-2-iodotoluene (230 g, 974 mmol) and zinc cyanide (68.7 g, 585 mmol) were added and the mixture was degassed under vacuum and purged with N2 three times. The mixture was heated to 80° C. for 16 hrs and allowed to cool to RT. The solution was added to 2.0 L aqueous solution of 1N NH4OH, which was then extracted three times with 1.5 L EtOAc, washed with 2 L brine, dried over Na2SO4, filtered, concentrated and purified by silica chromatography (PE/EA=10:1) to give the title compound.

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