Calcium Chloride → HCID 54200265, compound

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trans-2-(3,4-Dimethoxy-5-nitrophenyl)-5-(3,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl)-tetrahydrothiophene (0.3 g, 0.69 mmole) was suspended in 10 ml of ethanol. To this was added CaCl2 (72.63 mg, 0.65 mmole) in 2 mL water, followed by zinc metal (1.01 g). The suspension was refluxed for 5 hours, filtered, and the residue was washed with ethanol. The combined filtrate was washed with 10% NaHCO3, water and saturated aqueous sodium chloride, dried over MgSO4 and evaporated in vacuo to an oil that was purified by flash column chromatography using 1:1 hexane/ethyl acetate as solvent (30 mg, 10.8%).

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