3-Aminophenol → N-(3-Hydroxyphenyl)-2-methylpropanimidic acid

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3-Aminophenol (1.0 g) was dissolved in acetonitrile (10 ml), the solution was added with isobutyryl chloride (488 mg) under ice cooling, and the mixture was stirred for 1 hour. The reaction mixture was filtered, then the filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure, and the resulting residue was crystallized from hexane-ethyl acetate to obtain the title compound (392 mg).

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