Potassium Carbonate → HCID 19068975, compound

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Reaction Steps

1 g of (1) was dissolved in 25 ml of THF, 268 mg of NaH was added, and then 1.87 g of (2-methyloxyethyl)oxymethylchlorid. The reaction was left with stirring overnight, then added to a 2N K2CO3 solution. The mixture was extracted with toluene, the organic phase then washed with water and brine, dried, and evaporated to give 1.5 g of oil. The oil was then extracted twice with boiling heptane, and the heptane solutions left for 2 hours to separate out a yellow oily phase. The heptane was finally decanted off, filtered, and evaporated giving 1.21 g of (78). M.p. 52.5°-54° C.

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