Methanol → 2-Fluoro-3-(propane-1-sulfonylamino)-benzoic acid methyl ester

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To a 2-fluoro-3-(propane-1-sulfonylamino)-benzoic acid (15, 5.05 g, 19.3 mmol) in 100 mL of dichloromethane, N,N-dimethylformamide (0.075 mL, 0.97 mmol) was added under an atmosphere of nitrogen. The reaction was cooled with ice water, followed by slow addition of oxalyl chloride (10.8 mL, 2.00 M in dichloromethane, 21.6 mmol). The reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 3.0 hours, then cooled with ice water, followed by slowly adding 36.0 mL of methanol. The reaction was stirred at room temperature overnight. The reaction was concentrated under vacuum and purified with silica gel column chromatography eluting with 30% ethyl acetate in hexane. Appropriate fractions were combined and concentrated under vacuum to provide the desired compound as a crude white solid (16, 4.0 g).

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