m-Chloroperbenzoic acid → HCID 14500551, compound

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Ten grams of N-(2,6-dimethylphenyl)-4-(methylthio)benzamide were dissolved in a small volume of chloroform and chilled to 0° C. A solution of 7.9 g of m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid in chloroform was added in dropwise fashion. The reaction was stirred at room temperature for 1 hour, washed with a sodium bicarbonate solution, water, and a saturated chloride solution, dried over sodium sulfate and evaporated in vacuo. The resulting foam was chromatographed over silica gel eluting with an ethyl acetate in hexane gradient. The appropriate fractions were combined and the solvent removed in vacuo and the resulting residue was crystallized from ethyl acetate/hexane providing the desired title product in 59% yield, m.p. 144°-146° C.

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