Ethyl Acetate → HCID 86583663, compound

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Reaction Steps

To a suspension of 3-bromo-3-formylphenyl-4-methoxymethoxybenzoic acid ethyl ester (1.4 g, 3.56 mmol) in 10 mL MeOH/20 mL H2O was added solid KOH (220 mg, 3.91 mmol). The reaction mixture was refluxed for 3 hours then additional solid KOH (23 mg, 0.42 mmol) was added and the temperature of the reaction was lowered to ca 50° C. after which point the reaction was stirred overnight. The workup of the reaction consisted of diluting with water and acidifying with 2N HCl to pH 1 then extracting with EtOAc (3×). The combined organic layers were dried over Na2SO4 then the solvent was removed in vacuo to give a beige solid. This solid was subjected to flash chromatography (50% EtOAc: 50% Hexanes to 100% EtOAc) to give the desired acid as a beige solid plus a fraction that contained starting ester and desired acid. This fraction was rechromatographed to give more acid for a total yield of 920 mg, 70.7%. 1H NMR (CDCl3+DMSO-d6) δ 2.91 (s, 3H); 4.67 (s, 2H); 5.2–6.6 (bs, 1H); 7.26 (t, J=8.18 Hz, 1H); 7.67 (d, J=8.18 Hz, 1H); 7.73 (d, J=8.18 Hz, 1H); 7.83–7.90 (m, 2H); 8.11 (d, J=1.64 Hz, 1H); 9.90 (s, 1H).

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