Acetic Anhydride → 1-[1-(4-Ethoxyphenyl)-2,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrrol-3-yl]ethan-1-one

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Acetic anhydride (8.5 mL, 89 mmol) and hydriodic acid (0.48 mL, 6.3 mmol) were added to 2,5-dimethyl-1-(4-ethoxyphenyl)pyrrole (8.0 g, 37 mmol) under nitrogen and the resulting mixture maintained at 100° C. overnight. After cooling to rt, the mixture was diluted with 1N NaOH (200 mL), extracted with EtOAc (2×200 mL), and the combined extracts washed with brine (200 mL), dried (MgSO4), filtered, concentrated in vacuo, and purified by flash chromatography on silica gel (15% EtOAc/hexanes) to give 3-acetyl-2,5-dimethyl-1-(4-ethoxyphenyl)pyrrole as a tan solid: 1H NM (CDCl3, 500 MHz) δ 7.08-7.04 (m, 2H), 6.99-6.96 (m, 2H), 6.30 (s, 1H), 4.08 (q, 2H), 2.41 (s, 3H), 2.29 (s, 3H), 1.97 (s, 3H), 1.45 (t, 3H); MS (ESI) 258 (M+H)+.

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