Water → 2,2-Difluoropropyl methanesulfonate

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To a mixture of 2,2-difluoropropan-1-ol (2.00 g, 20.8 mmol) and TEA (3.16 g, 31.25 mmol) in dry DCM (20 mL) was added methanesulfonyl chloride (2.84 g, 24.96 mmol) at 0° C. The resulting reaction mixture was stirred at rt for 1.5 h. Water was added and the mixture was extracted with DCM (3×100 mL). The combined organic layers were washed with saturated aqueous ammonium chloride solution, brine, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and filtered. The filtrate was evaporated under vacuum to give the title product (2.70 g, 15.52 mmol, 75% yield), which was used directly in the next step without further purification.

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