Oxalyl chloride → 3-bromo-N-cyclopropyl-4-methylbenzamide

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A stirred, cooled (ice bath) solution of 3-bromo-4-methyl-benzoic acid (Aldrich, 5 g, 23.25 mmol) in benzene (50 mL), dichloromethane (10 mL) and N,N-dimethylformamide (0.5 mL) was treated with oxalyl chloride (4 mL, 46.5 mmol). The reaction mixture was allowed to warm to ambient temperature over 3 h. The volatiles were then distilled off in vacuo, the residue was diluted with anhydrous dichloromethane (50 mL) under argon, cooled (ice bath) and treated with 4-(dimethylamino)pyridine (5.67 g, 46.5 mmol) followed by cyclopropyl amine (1.93 mL, 27.9 mmol). After 3 h, the reaction mixture was diluted with dichloromethane and washed with water. The organic phase was dried-over anhydrous sodium sulfate, filtered and evaporated in vacuo to afford the title product that was used as such for the next step (6.0 g,˜100%).

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