Potassium Cyanide → 5-(4-Bromo-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-4-tosyl-4,5-dihydrooxazole

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To an oven-dried flask under argon was added 4-bromo-3,5-dimethoxybenzaldehyde (1.0 g, 4.08 mmol), absolute EtOH (34 mL), p-toluenesulfonylmethyl isocyanide (0.78 g, 4.0 mmol) and KCN (0.035 g, 0.54 mmol). The mixture was stirred for 19 hours at room temperature then concentrated in vacuo to give 5-(4-bromo-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-4-tosyl-4,5-dihydrooxazole which was used in the next synthetic step without purification.

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