Acetyl chloride → p-Acetylphenyl acetate

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4'-Hydroxyacetophenone (10 g, 73.4 mmole) was suspended in 200 ml dichloromethane in a 500 ml one neck round bottom flask under nitrogen at 0° C. The suspension was treated with diisopropylethylamine (14.7 ml, 84.5 mmole) followed by acetyl chloride (6.0 ml, 84.5 mmole) in 1×50 ml dichloromethane slowly dropwise. The reaction mixture was stirred 30 minutes at 0° C. and then for 1 hour at room temperature. The mixture was washed with 1×100 ml 10% hydrochloric acid and the organics were dried over magnesium sulfate. The dried organics were concentrated in vacuo to a yellow oil. The oil was distilled via kugelrohr (high vacuum, 165° C.) to give 12.25 g (94%) of 4'-acetoxy-acetophenone as a white solid. Melting Point: 47°-49° C. 4'-Acetoxy-acetophenone (10 g, 56.2 mmole) was dissolved in acetic anhydride (10.6 ml, 112.2 mmole) in an oven dried 50 ml two neck round bottom flask under nitrogen. The solution was cooled to 0° C. and boron trilfuoride gas was bubbled into the reaction mixture until it was saturated. The reaction was stirred 1 hour at room temperature and was poured into 600 ml diethyl ether. The orange precipitate was collected, washed with fresh diethyl ether, and was dried to afford 6.6 g (43%) of a boron difluoride complex. Melting Point: 130°-132° C.

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