4-Hydroxybenzaldehyde → Benzaldehyde, 4-(phenylmethoxy)-

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In 80 ml of dimethylformamide was dissolved 12.22 g of p-hydroxybenzaldehyde, and 17.66 g of anhydrous potassium carbonate and 13.0 ml of benzyl bromide were added to the solution and the mixture was stirred at room temperature in a nitrogen current for 1 hour. After the reaction, water was added to the reaction mixture and the formed precipitate was recovered by filtration and recrystallized from a dichloromethane/hexane mixed solvent to obtain 20.07 g (yield=94.6%) of 4-benzyloxybenzaldehyde in the form of a colorless needle.

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