Acetic Anhydride → 4'-Cyano-2',3'-difluoroacetanilide

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Reaction Steps

A mixture of 9.59 g of 4-amino-2,3-difluorobenzonitrile and 20 mL of Ac2O is heated for 1 hour on a steam bath. The red solution is cooled in an ice bath and the resulting faint pink crystals filtered off, washed with 2×10 mL of Et2O and air dried. In this manner there is obtained 8.26 g (67% yield) of 4'-cyano-2',3'-difluoroacetanilide, m.p. 175°-177° C. with the appropriate NMR and IR spectral data and an ion at 197 in the mass spectrum.

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