Water → 4-fluoro-N,N-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-(trifluoromethyl)benzamide

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Compound 4-fluoro-N,N-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)-2-(trifluoromethyl)benzamide (2e) (1.00 g, 2.38 mmol) was dissolved in dry CH2Cl2 (30 mL) at room temperature. BBr3 (10 mL of 1.0 M CH2Cl2 solution, 10.0 mmol) was added dropwise with stirring via a syringe at room temperature. The reaction solution was allowed to stir overnight at room temperature. The mixture was cooled to 0° C. in an ice bath and hydrolyzed by adding water. EtOAc was added to partition the solution. The organic layer was separated; the aqueous layer was extracted with EtOAc twice. The organic layers were combined, washed with brine and dried over anhydrous MgSO4. The solvent was removed under vacuum. The residue was purified by flash column chromatography using silica-gel with CH3OH/CH2Cl2 (1/9 v/v) to afford the pure desired phenolic compound as a white solid, 0.86 g, 92.5% yield. 1H NMR (DMSO-d6, 300 MHz) δ 9.55 (s, 1H), 9.53 (s, 1H), 7.69-7.58 (m, 2H), 7.46-7.39 (m, 1H), 7.18 (d, 2H, J=8.7 Hz), 6.93 (d, 4H, J=8.7 Hz), 7.03 (d, 2H, J=8.4 Hz), 6.78 (d, 2H, J=8.7 Hz), 6.57 (d, 2H, J=8.7 Hz). MS m/z 392.1 (M+H)+.

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