Ethyl Acetate → Methyl 5-fluoro-2-(2-nitrophenoxy)benzoate

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Methyl 5-fluoro-2-hydroxybenzoate (2.65 g, 15.6 mmo.) and 1-fluoro-2-nitrobenzene (2.02 g, 14.2 mmol) were dissolved in acetonitrile (30 mL) and cesium carbonate (6.10 g, 18.7 mmol) was added. The reaction mixture was stirred at 80° C. for 60 hours. The mixture was cooled down to room temperature and poured into ethyl acetate. This organic mixture was washed with water and brine, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and evaporated. The crude was purified by flash chromatography with 10-20% ethyl acetate in hexanes and triturated in ethanol to afford the title compound 18 (3.49 g, 84%) as white solid. LRMS (ESI): (calc) 291.05 (found) 292.2 (MS)+.

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