Dimethylformamide → HCID 86748110, compound

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A mixture of sodium hydride (55%; 0.224 g) and 4-hydroxy-alpha-oxobenzeneacetic acid methyl ester (0.918 g) in dimethylformamide (12 mL) were stirred at room temperature for 30 minutes and then 2-chloro-1-[4-(1,1-dimethylethyl)phenyl]ethanone (1 g) in dimethylformamide (6 mL) was added. The reaction mixture was stirred at 60° C. overnight and worked up as in Example 20. The crude product (1.97 g) was purified initially by HPLC (ethyl acetate-hexane; 1:3) to give 0.79 g of material that was further purified by flash chromatography over silica gel (ethyl acetate-hexane-dichloromethane; 3:37:60) to afford of 0.535 g of 4-[2-[4-(1,1-dimethylethyl)phenyl-2-oxoethoxy]-alpha-oxobenzeneacetic acid methyl ester as an oil.

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