Water → 1-(4-methylbenzenesulfonyl)-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid

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Sodium hydride (60%; 1.02 mg) was added at 0° C. to a solution of 1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid tert-butyl ester (3.57 g) in tetrahydrofuran (71 ml), stirred at room temperature, then p-toluenesulfonic acid chloride (4.47 g) the mixture was stirred all night and all day. Water was added to the reaction solution, extracted with ethyl acetate, washed with saturated brine, and dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate. The organic solution was concentrated in vacuo, dichloromethane (30 ml) and trifluoroacetic acid (15 ml) were added to the resulting residue and stirred at room temperature for four hours. The solvent was evaporated, water was added to the resulting residue and the precipitated solid was washed with water to give 1-[(4-methylphenyl)sulfonyl]-1H-pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid (4.2 g) as a pale yellow solid.

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