Hydrochloric Acid → 1,4-Benzenediamine, 2-bromo-6-(trifluoromethyl)-

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Aqueous hydrochloric acid (2 M, 45 mL) was added slowly to a mixture of zinc dust (8.6 g) and 2-bromo-4-nitro-6-trifluoromethyl-phenylamine (2.5 g) in tetrahydrofuran (50 mL). The reaction mixture was stirred for 1 hour, filtered and neutralized with saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate (100 mL). Water (100 mL) was added and the mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate (2×100 mL). The combined organic phases were washed with water (2×200 mL) and brine (200 mL), dried over sodium sulfate and concentrated in vacuo to furnish 2.22 g (98% yield) of the title compound as a red solid. 1H NMR (500 MHz, DMSO-d6): 4.55 (s, 2H), 4.91 (s, 2H), 6.76 (d, 1H), 7.01 (d, 1H).

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