Hydrochloric Acid → Diethyl (2,5-difluoro-4-nitrophenyl)propanedioate

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Crushed sodium hydroxide pellets (2.26 g, 56.5 mmol) were added portionwise over 20 minutes to solution of 1,2,4-trifluoro-5-nitrobenzene (5.0 g, 28.2 mmol) and diethyl chloropropanedioate (4.57 ml, 56.5 mmol) in dry DMF (50 ml) at 0° C. under argon. The reaction mixture was allowed to warm to room temperature and stirred overnight. The reaction mixture was cooled to OC and acidified with 2N Hydrochloric acid (50 ml) then extracted with ethyl acetate (150 ml) and washed with water (150 ml). The organic layer was dried over magnesium sulphate, filtered and evaporated to an orange oil. Purified by chromatography on silica gel (Biotage SP4, 100 g silica column) eluting with 0-20% ethyl acetate/hexane to give the title compound as a yellow oil (4.84 g, 15.3 mmol). LC/MS: Rt=3.07, [MH]− 316.

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