4-Fluorobenzoic Acid → 4-Fluorobenzoic Acid

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A 25-ml 2-necked Kjeldahl flask fitted with an air-cooling line and an oxygen introducing line was charged with 2.1 g of p-fluorobenzoic acid, 1.99 g of cupric oxide, and 2 ml of diphenyl ether as solvent, after which it was heated at 240° C. over an oil bath while blowing in oxygen at a rate of 30 ml per minute for 90 minutes. After cooling, the experiment was carried out as in Example 1 to recover 0.121 g of p-fluorobenzoic acid from the filtration residue. And from the filtrate there were obtained 0.656 g of m-fluorophenyl p-flurobenzoate and 1.000 g of p-fluorobenzoic acid by column chromatography. The yield of m-fluorophenyl p-fluorobenzoate was 37.4%, and the selectivity was 80.3%.

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