Ammonium Hydroxide → 2,3-Dichloro-5-sulfamoylbenzoic acid

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To a 20 ml scintillation vial was added 2,3-dichloro-5-(chlorosulfonyl)benzoic acid (170 mg, 0.587 mmol). To this was added 1.5 ml of DCM and 7 ml of 7M NH4OH. The reaction mixture was stirred vigorously at room temperature overnight. After consumption of the starting material, the reaction solution was concentrated to half volume with a rotary evaporator and acidified with 6M HCl to ˜pH 4.5. The resulting solution was left at room temperature until the product precipitated. The product was collected by vacuum filtration and air dried, yielding 5-(aminosulfonyl)-2,3-dichlorobenzoic acid (80 mg, 50%) as light yellow solid.

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