Sodium Carbonate → Ethyl 2'-chloro-4'-(trifluoromethyl)[1,1'-biphenyl]-3-acetate

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Ethyl 3-iodophenylacetate (2.90 g), 2-chloro-4-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl boronic acid (3.3 g), 2M aqueous sodium carbonate solution (5 mL), dioxane (10 mL) and dichloro-bis(triphenylphosphine)palladium(II) (350 mg) were heated at 80° C. for 30 min with stirring. The reaction mixture was then cooled, poured into water, extracted with ethyl acetate, and the organic layer was separated and concentrated under vacuum in the presence of Celite® to a solid residue. This solid residue was purified by medium pressure liquid chromatography on silica gel eluting with a gradient of ethyl acetate in hexanes to yield 1.7 g of the title compound. 1H NMR (CDCl3) δ 7.14 (s, 1H), 7.56 (d, 1H) 7.30-7.45 (m, 5H), 4.77 (q, 2H), 3.67 (s, 2H), 1.26 (t, 3H).

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