Hydrochloric Acid → 1-[4-Hydroxy-2′-(trifluoromethyl)[1,1′-biphenyl]-3-yl]ethanone

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A mixture of 5-bromo-2-hydroxy acetophenone (3.00 g, 13.9 mmol), 2-(trifluoromethyl)benzeneboronic acid (3.97 g, 20.9 mmol), potassium carbonate (3.86 g, 27.9 mmol) and tetrakistriphenylphosphinepalladium (0) (1.61 g, 1.39 mmol) in 1,4-dioxane (90 mL) and water (18.0 mL) was heated to 50° C. over 2 days under an atmosphere of nitrogen. The reaction was allowed to cool to room temperature and poured into a 1M aqueous solution of hydrogen chloride (50 mL). The aqueous layer was then extracted with ethyl acetate (3×50 mL). The combined organics were washed with water (50 mL), dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, filtered and concentrated in vacuo to afford a brown oil. The oil was purified by silica gel column chromatography (10% ethyl acetate in heptane) to afford the title compound as a colourless oil (3.70 g, 95%).

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