Tert-butyl acetoacetate → HCID 66671407, compound

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tert-Butyl acetoacetate (23.8 ml) was added dropwise over 15 minutes to a stirred suspension of sodium hydride (8.9 mg) in tetrahydrofuran at 0° C. under nitrogen atmosphere. After stirring for 20 minutes n-butyl lithium in hexane (111 ml) was added then stirring continued for a further ten minutes. The resulting solution was treated dropwise with a solution of 4-bromobenzyl bromide (14.19 g) in tetrahydrofuran (100 ml) and then warmed to room temperature. The reaction was stirred for 40 minutes at room temperature and then quenched with HCl (6M, 5 ml). The resulting mixture was extracted with diethyl ether. The organic phases were combined, washed with brine and dried over anhydrous sodium sulphate. The solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure. The residue was thus obtained was purified via flash chromatography using 5% ethyl acetate in hexane as eluant to furnish the title compound (37 g).

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