Phenacyl bromide → Phenacyl (+/-)-3-hydroxyhexadecanoate

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To a suspension of (±)-3-hydroxyhexadecanoic acid (500 mg, 1.84 mmol) in ethyl acetate (3.6 ml) were added phenacyl bromide (421 mg, 2.12 mmol) and triethylamine (294 mg, 2.12 mmol). The mixture was stirred at room temperature overnight. The reaction mixture was washed with water, saturated aqueous sodium hydrogencarbonate and saturated aqueous sodium chloride, and then dried over magnesium sulfate. Magnesium sulfate was filtered off and the filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure to obtain 678 mg of the title compound as a pale yellow solid.

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