Chloroform → Ethyl 2-(4-methoxyphenyl)-2-oxoacetate

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Aluminum chloride (84.30 g, 632 mmol) was added to chloroform (300 ml) and chloroglyoxylic ethyl ester (60 g, 439 mmol) was added dropwise to the resulting suspension over 20 minutes at 0° C. The reaction mixture was stirred for 40 minutes at 5° C. At the same temperature, anisole (68.79 g, 636 mmol) was slowly added dropwise to the reaction solution and then stirred for 12 hours at 10° C. When the reaction is completed, the reaction solution was cooled and, after adding cooling water (100 ml), extracted with dichloromethane. The extract was dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and then concentrated to obtain the title compound as a yellow solid (TLC identification). The resulting compound was used in the next reaction without further purification.

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