Sodium Hydroxide → HCID 44546742, compound

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Reaction Steps

A solution of the alcohol, Compound 5, (495 g, 1.54 mol) in dichloromethane (6.0 L) was split equally into two flasks. To each half of the ice-cold solution was added methanesulfonic acid (500 mL, 7.7 mmol) via additional funnel (˜1 h). The reaction solution was allowed to slowly warm to room temperature and stirred for 6-8 h before it was cooled to <10° C. and quenched slowly with an aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide (330 g, 8.3 mol in 600 mL of water). The internal temperature during the addition was kept less than 30° C. The organic layer was then separated, washed with water, dried over sodium sulfate and concentrated in vacuo. The crude product from the two batches were combined and purified by flash column chromatography (hexanes/ethyl acetate 88:12 to ethyl acetate/methanol 99.9:0.1) to give Compound 6 (280.4 g, 60% over 4 steps) as a thick oil: 1H NMR (500 MHz, CDCl3) δ 7.81-7.74 (m, 3H), 7.68 (s, 1H), 7.47-7.42 (m, 2H), 7.28-7.26 (m, 1H), 6.79 (d, J=8.5 Hz, 1H), 6.80-6.62 (m, 2H), 4.40 (dd, J=8.5, 6.0 Hz, 1H), 3.80-3.78 (m, 1H), 3.77 (s, 3H), 3.65 (d, J=15.0 Hz, 1H), 3.11-3.08 (m, 1H), 2.65 (dd, J=11.5, 6.0 Hz, 1H), 2.45 (s, 3H); ESI MS m/z 304 [M+H]+.

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