3-Bromo-4-fluorobenzaldehyde → 2-Fluoro-5-formylbenzonitrile

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To NMP (40 ml) were added 3-bromo-4-fluorobenzaldehyde (10 g, 0.05 mol) and CuCN (5 g, 0.055 mol). The resulting mixture was heated at 170 for 24 h until the reaction finished (monitored by TLC), and cooled to 80, 10 g of celite was added and stirred for 1 h at this temperature. The reaction mixture then was cooled to room temperature, and partitioned between ethyl acetate (250 ml) and water (125 ml), the organic phase was washed with water and brine, dried, filtered, and concentrated to give the crude. Then the crude was purified by column chromatography on silica gel (Petroleum ether:Ethyl Acetate=4:1) to afford target compound (8 g, 100%) as a light yellow solid.

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