Chloride → 2-tert-Butyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-one

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To the cupurous chloride (0.258 g, 2.61 mmol) inside 250 mL round bottom flask was added 22 mL of methylmagnesium iodide (3.0 M solution in diethyl ether, 66 mmol) at 0° C. under nitrogen. Diethyl ether was removed in vacuo. Tetrahydrofuran (65 mL) was then introduced. To this resulting suspension was added a solution of 2-isopropylidene-1-indanone (5.00 g, 29 mmol) in Tetrahydrofuran (25 mL) through a dropping funnel dropwise at 0° C. The mixture was stirred at the same temperature for another 1 h and then at ambient temperature overnight (16 h). The slurry was poured into ice (32 g) containing ammonium chloride (6.44 g). The solution was extracted with diethyl ether (5*80 mL). All ethereal layers were combined, washed with water (20 mL), dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and concentrated to yield 5.29 g (97%) of 2-t-butyl-1-indanone. H-NMR (CDCL3) δ 0.95 (s, 9H), 2.38 (dd, J=4.3, 8.0 Hz, 1 H), 2.90 (dd, J=4.3, 17.4 Hz, 1H), 3.08 (dd, J=8.0, 17.4 Hz, 1H) 7.23 (br t, J=7.4 Hz, 1H), 7.35 (br d, J=7.6 Hz, 1H), 7.46 (br t, J=7.6 Hz, 1H), 7.61 (br d, J=7.4 Hz, 1H):

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