Methyl chloroglyoxylate → HCID 22166479, compound

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Reaction Steps

3-Bromopropanoic acid, tert-butyl ester (2.2 g, 10.6 mmol), activated zinc (1.25 g in 25 ml of THF) and methyl chlorooxoacetate (1.4 ml, 11.4 mmol) were reacted by the same procedure as described in Example 1 for the preparation of methyl 7-tert-butyoxycarbonyl-2-oxoheptanoate to give the crude title material (1.65 g) as a colorless liquid which is used directly in next step.

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