Ethyl Acetoacetate → HCID 54116819, compound

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Reaction Steps

To a chilled suspension (0° C., ice-water bath) of NaH (0.64 g, 16.0 mmoles) (60% in mineral oil) in 20 mL Of dry tetrahydrofuran under argon was added ethyl acetoacetate 2.04 mL (16.0 mmoles) in 4 equal portions. The homogeneous clear solution was stirred at 0° C. for 30 minutes followed by the dropwise addition of 6.4 mL of 2.5 Molar n-BuLi (16.0 mmoles) over a period of 15 minutes. The orange dianion solution was stirred at 0° C. for an additional hour. The ice-water bath was replaced by an acetone-dry ice bath at -78° C. and the dianion was transferred via a cannula into a tetrahydrofuran (20 mL) solution containing 5,5-bis(4-fluorophenyl)-4-(1-methyl-1H-tetrazol-5-yl)-2,4-pentadienal (2.82 g, 8.01 mmoles). Analytical TLC showed the major desired product at Rf =0.15 (50% EtAOc in hexanes) and a minor product at Rf =0.2. The crude reaction mixture was diluted with 40 mL of 1N HCl and the aqueous layer was extracted with ethyl acetate (50 mL×2). The organic layers were combined, dried over MgSO4 and concentrated under reduced pressure. The desired product was purified by flash silica gel column chromatography eluted with 20% EtOAc in hexanes (v/v) to give 2.26 g (58.5%) of the title compound. MS (CI): m/e=483 for (M+H)+.

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