Hydrochloric Acid → 2,6-Dichloro-3-hydroxy-benzaldehyde

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To tert-butyl-(2,4-dichloro-phenoxy)-dimethyl-silane (113, 4.00 g, 0.0144 mol) in tetrahydrofuran (50.0 mL), under an atmosphere of nitrogen at −78° C., n-butyllithium (2.50 M in hexane, 6.06 mL) was added slowly. After 30 minutes, N,N-dimethylformamide (1.34 mL, 0.0173 mol) was added to the reaction. After 1 hour, the reaction was allowed to warm to room temperature. 1N HCl (40 mL) was added to the reaction. The reaction was poured into water and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer was dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate and filtered. The filtrate was concentrated and purified by silica gel column chromatography eluting with 20% ethyl acetate in hexane to give a yellow solid (114, 2.0 g, 72.6%).

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