Potassium Carbonate → HCID 67464169, compound

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Methyl 4-hydroxy-2-methoxy-benzoate (0.790 g, 4.34 mmol), 2-bromoacetonitrile (361 μL, 5.42 mmol), and potassium carbonate (900 mg, 6.51 mmol) were combined in N,N-dimethylformamide (5 mL). The reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 16 hours. The reaction mixture was diluted with 50 mL of ethyl acetate and 25 mL of water. The layers were separated and the water layer was extracted with 50 mL of ethyl acetate. The combined organic layers were washed with a saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride (2×). The organic layer was then dried over sodium sulfate, filtered, and evaporated to dryness to yield methyl 4-(cyanomethoxy)-2-methoxy-benzoate (99%) as a brown oil. ESI-MS m/z calc 221.1, found 222.1 (M+1)+. Retention time: 1.08 minutes (3 min run).

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