Dimethyl Carbonate → HCID 68630388, compound

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Sodium hydride (1.86 g of a 60% dispersion in mineral oil, 46.5 mmol) was added to a solution of 1-[1-(4-chlorophenyl)cyclobutyl]ethanone (4.18 g, 20.0 mmol) and of dimethyl carbonate (8.4 mL, 99.6 mmol) in of dioxane (20 mL). After the reaction mixture had been refluxed for 4 h, it was chilled in an ice-water bath and treated drop wise with 1 M aqueous sodium hydrogen sulfate solution (50 mL). The mixture containing now a thick precipitate was then partitioned between diethyl ether and water. The organic phase was washed with sat. sodium hydrogen carbonate solution and with brine, dried over magnesium sulfate, and evaporated under reduced pressure. The residual material was purified by chromatography on silica gel using heptane/0-10% ethyl acetate as eluent to afford the title compound (4.45 g, 79%) as pale-yellow oil.

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