Potassium Iodide → Methyl 2-(4-(3-(tert-butyldimethylsilyloxy)propoxy)-2-methoxybenzyl)-3-oxobutanoate

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Methyl acetoacetate (4.18 mL) was added to a suspension of NaH (55% oil dispersion, 1.70 g) in DMF (60 mL) at 0° C. and stirred at r.t. for 0.5 h. The product from step (iii) (10.0 g) in DMF (60 mL) and potassium iodide (4.73 g) were added to the mixture and stirred at 80° C. for 6 h. The mixture was cooled to RT and diluted with water and extracted with EtOAc. And the combined organic solutions were washed with water and brine, dried and concentrated. The residue was purified by silica gel chromatography to give 9.98 g of the subtitle compound as a yellow oil; 1H NMR: 6.99 (1H, d), 6.42 (1H, d), 6.37 (1H, dd), 4.02 (2H, t), 3.89 (1H, t), 3.80 (3H, s), 3.79 (2H, t), 3.67 (3H, s), 2.99-3.14 (2H, m), 2.17 (3H, s), 1.92-2.00 (2H, m), 0.88 (9H, s), 0.04 (6H, s).

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