Water → Methyl 4-(benzyloxy)-2-fluorobenzoate

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Methyl 2-fluoro-4-hydroxybenzoate (1.4685 g, manufactured by Changzhou Fine Chemical Corp.) and potassium carbonate (3.6917 g; manufactured by Sigma-Aldrich Co.) were suspended in dehydrated DMF (21 mL; manufactured by Kanto Chemical Co., Inc.), added with benzyl bromide (1.22 mL; manufactured by Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.), and stirred at 50° C. overnight. After cooling to the room temperature, it was added to water and extraction was carried out twice with ethyl acetate. The organic layer was washed twice with water and once with brine and dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate. After the solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure, the residue was purified by column chromatography (“COLUMN-B”; n-hexane:ethyl acetate=97:3→77:23) to obtain the title compound (2.2207 g).

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