4-Fluoroaniline → N-(4-Fluorophenyl)-4-methoxyaniline

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A mixture of 4-fluoroaniline (78.63 g, 0.708 mol), 4-iodoanisole (138.00 g, 0.590 mol), anhydrous K2CO3 (122.23 g, 0.884 mol), CuI (11.23 g, 58.96 mmol) and L-proline (13.58 g, 0.118 mol) was mixed together in a dry 1 L three-necked round-bottomed flask fitted with a stirring bar, a reflux condenser and an argon inlet. Anhydrous DMSO (300 mL) was added at room temperature. The reaction mixture was stirred and heated to 90° C. for 20 hours under argon. Then, the mixture was cooled to room temperature and hydrolyzed with water (300 mL). EtOAc (200 mL) was added to partition the solution. The EtOAc layer was separated. The aqueous layer was extracted with 100 mL of EtOAc. The EtOAc layers were combined, washed with brine (2×100 mL) and dried over anhydrous MgSO4 (50 g). The solvent was removed under reduced pressure. The brown oil residue was purified by flash column chromatography (silica gel, Hexanes/EtOAc=9/1 v/v) to afford 4-fluoro-N-(4-methoxyphenyl)aniline (1c) as a yellow solid product, 99.70 g, 77.8% yield. M.p. 46-48° C. MS (ESI) m/z 218.1 [M+H]+, 1H NMR (DMSO-d6, 300 MHz) δ 7.77 (bs, 1H), 7.03-6.98 (m, 4H), 6.93-6.82 (m, 4H), 3.70 (s, 3H).

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