Hydrochloric Acid → HCID 66840740, compound

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To 4-chlorobenzaldehyde 46a (99.6 mmol, 14 g) in water (44 mL) was added KOH (44.6 mmol, 2.5 g). The mixture was heated at 65° C. and 3-pentanone (99.6 mmol, 8.58 g) was added dropwise over 10 min. After refluxing for 8 h, the reaction mixture was cooled to room temperature and stirred overnight. Following addition of 260 mL 1N aqueous HCl, the mixture was extracted with EtOAc. The organic layer was dried over Na2SO4 and concentrated. The crude product was purified by flash column chromatography (silica gel, 5% EtOAc/heptane) to give 8.59 g of 46b.

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