Dimethylformamide → 4-(2,2-Difluoroethoxy)Benzaldehyde

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The preparation was conducted according to the description in the document (J. Med. Chem., (1994), 37, 3977-3985). Sodium hydride (3.36 g, 55%, 77.0 mmol) was added to a DMF (100 mL) solution of 2,2-difluoroethanol (5.75 g, 70.0 mmol) under ice-cooling over 5 minutes under a nitrogen gas flow. The resulting mixture was stirred at the same temperature for 10 minutes, and then to the reaction solution was dropwise added a DMF (40 mL) solution of 4-fluorobenzaldehyde (9.56 g, 77.0 mmol) over 5 minutes. The mixture was stirred at room temperature for 4 hours, and the reaction solution was poured into ice water (500 mL). The resulting mixture was extracted with ether:n-hexane (300 mL, 1:1, V/V) three times. The extracted organic layer was washed with water (300 mL) three times and with saturated brine and dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate. The solvent was evaporated to give a crude product. A solution mixture of ether:n-hexane (20 mL, 1:10, V/V) was added to this crude product, and the supernatant was removed. This procedure was repeated four times in total to wash the crystalline product to give 10.1 g of the title compound (colorless crystal, yield: 77%).

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