Potassium Hydroxide → Indeglitazar

Participants

Reaction Steps

To a solution of the methyl ester 5 (830 mg, 2.06 mmol) in tetrahydrofuran (15 mL) was added an aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide (5 mL of 1M) and stirred at room temperature for 5 h. The acid 1 was isolated by neutralizing the reaction mixture by aqueous hydrochloric acid, extracting the product with ethyl acetate, drying over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, evaporating under reduced pressure, and purifying using flash chromatography with 5% methanol in dichloromethane to afford a white solid (697.5 mg, 91%; M-1=373.1).

Provenance & Evidence