Lithium aluminum hydride → Propane-1-sulfonic acid (2-fluoro-3-hydroxymethyl-phenyl)-amide

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To 2-fluoro-3-(propane-1-sulfonylamino)-benzoic acid methyl ester (16, 3.80 g, 13.8 mmol) in 133 mL of tetrahydrofuran, lithium tetrahydroaluminate (20.0 mL, 1.00 M in tetrahydrofuran, 20.0 mmol) was added under an atmosphere of nitrogen at room temperature. The reaction was stirred at room temperature for 8 hours, followed by addition of 10 g of NaSO4.10H2O. After 12 hours, the reaction was filtered, the filtrate concentrated under vacuum and the resulting material purified by silica gel column chromatography eluting with 5% methanol in dichloromethane. Appropriate fractions were combined and concentrated under vacuum to provide the desired compound as a white solid (17, 3.0 g, 87.9%).

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