Ammonium Chloride → 5,6-difluoro-N1-(2-fluoro-4-iodophenyl)-3-methoxybenzene-1,2-diamine

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Ammonium chloride (1.18 g, 20.16 mmol) and iron powder (1.15 g, 21.44 mmol) were added to a stirred solution of (2,3-difluoro-5-methoxy-6-nitro-phenyl)-(2-fluoro-4-iodo-phenyl)-amine (0.57 g, 1.34 mmol) in ethanol (20 mL). The mixture was stirred at reflux for 16 hours, cooled to room temperature, filtered over celite and the filtrate concentrated to dryness. The resulting residue was taken into ethyl acetate, washed with water, dried over sodium sulfate and further purified by crystallization from ethanol to provide the product as an off-white solid (0.47 g, 90.3%). M+H+: 393.2. 1H NMR (DMSO, 300 MHz): 3.76 (s, 3H); 6.1 (t, 1H); 6.8-7.0 (m, 1H); 7.2 (d, 1H); 7.35 (s, 1H); 7.42 (d, 1H).

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