Acetic Acid → HCID 19072491, compound

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Reaction Steps

30 ml of a 2M solution (60 mol) of phenyllithium in benzene/diethyl ether (3:1) are added dropwise at 0° C. with stirring to 13.2 g (60 mmol) of tert-butyl 2-(4-methyl-phenyl)-2-oxo-acetate under argon in 70 ml of THF and the mixture is stirred at room temperature for a further 1 h. The mixture is diluted with 80 ml of diethyl ether, poured into 150 ml of water with stirring, neutralised with 1N acetic acid and extracted three times with diethyl ether. The combined organic phases are dried over sodium sulphate and concentrated, and the product is chromatographed on silica gel 60 using 40-60 petroleum ether/ethyl acetate (4:1).

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