Acetic Acid → HCID 66700105, compound

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Reaction Steps

Referring to Scheme 10, methylmagnesium iodide (14.12 mL, 3 M in Et2O, 42.4 mmol) was added to a stirred solution of 2,6-dibromo-9H-xanthen-9-one (7-2) (10 g, 28.2 mmol) in THF (30 mL) at 0° C. The reaction mixture was allowed to warm up to rt and stirred for 2 h. The reaction mixture was cooled to 0° C. and quenched with saturated NH4Cl solution (250 mL) and stirred for 30 min. The volatiles were removed in vacuo. The residue was taken up in CHCl3 (200 mL), and the organic layer was separated and the aqueous phase was extracted with CHCl3 (2×200 mL) and combined organics was dried over MgSO4, filtered and solvents removed in vacuo to crude product (9.46 g). The crude reaction was taken up in EtOAc (200 mL) and AcOH was added (20 mL) and the reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 3 h, the volatiles removed in vacuo and the residue was precipitated from isohexanes to give 2,6-dibromo-9-methylene-9H-xanthene (9-1) (6.43 g, 64.7% yield).

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