Sodium Hydroxide → 4-Phenoxybenzoic acid

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Methyl 4-phenoxybenzoate (0.144 g; 0.630 mmol) was added to a mixture of NaOH in water (1 mL; 2M) and dioxane (1 mL) and stirred vigorously at room temperature overnight. The resulting mixture was concentrated in vacuo and extracted with dichloromethane. The aqueous layer was acidified with a 6N solution of hydrochloric acid in water. The precipitated product was collected by filtration to yield 0.136 g (quantitative) of the title compound as a white solid which was used without further purification.

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