Potassium Carbonate → 4-fluoronaphthalen-1-ol

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To a stirred solution of 2.71 g of 1-acetoxy-4-fluoro-naphthalene in 142 ml of degassed methanol was added a solution of 9.2 g of potassium carbonate in 95 ml of degassed water. The mixture was stirred at room temperature for 5 h. The mixture was cooled with ice, acidified to pH1-2 with conc. HCL, extracted with dichloromethane, dried (magnesium sulphate), filtered and concentrated to an orange solid. The material was purified by chromatography on silica gel eluting with dichloromethane/heptanes/toluene to provide 1.98 g of 4-fluoro-1-hydroxynaphthalene as a white solid.

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