Acetyl chloride → N-Methyl-N-(4-nitrophenyl)acetamide

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To a solution of N-methyl-4-nitroaniline (200 mg, 1.31 mmol) in THF (5 ml) were successively added Et3N (0.364 ml, 2.63 mmol), acetyl chloride (0.14 ml, 1.97 mmol) and DMAP (8.0 mg, 0.066 mmol) at RT. The reaction mixture was stirred at RT for 2 h then diluted into AcOEt and washed with water. The organic layer was dried over Na2SO4, filtered and evaporated to dryness to yield the crude title compound (275 mg) as a brownish solid, which was used in the next step without further purification. HPLC: AtRet=1.17 min; LC-MS: m/z 195.4 [M+H]+; 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3): 2.05 (br. s., 3H), 3.37 (s, 3H), 7.36-7.46 (m, 2H), 8.27-8.36 (m, 2H).

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