Phenol, 3-(1,1-dimethylethyl)- → 4-tert-Butyl-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde

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A stirred, cooled (ice bath) solution of 3-tert-butyl phenol (1.5 g, 10 mmol) in anhydrous dichloromethane was treated with titanium tetrachloride (1.86 mL, 17 mmol) followed by α,α-dichloromethyl ether (0.9 mL, 20 mmol). The reaction was allowed to warm to ambient temperature over 1 h, quenched cautiously with ice and water and extracted with dichloromethane. The organic extract was washed with water and brine, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and evaporated in vacuo to a residue that was subjected to flash column chromatography using 2–2.5% ethyl acetate in hexane as the eluent to afford the title compound (1.37 g, 77%). 1H NMR (300 MHz, CDCl3): δ 11.02 (s, 1H), 9.81 (s, 1H), 7.45 (d, J=8.2 Hz, 1H), 7.03 (dd, J=8.2, 1.7 Hz, 1H), 6.99 (d, J=1.7 Hz, 1H), 1.31 (s, 9H).

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