Water → HCID 18630027, compound

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To a slurry of potassium t-butoxide (56.0 g, 0.5 mol) in t-butanol (200 mL) at room temperature was added 2-fluorobenzonitrile (12.1 g, 0.1 mol). The reaction mixture was heated to reflux for 30 min and water (3.6 mL, 0.2 mol) was added. The reaction was heated at reflux for 2 h and ethyl iodide (40 mL, 0.5 mol) was added portionwise over 40 min as reflux was continued. After cooling and stirring at room temperature overnight, GC and GC MS analysis of the reaction indicated a 61% yield of N-ethyl 2-[(1,1-dimethylethyl)oxy]benzamide. Thus, using appropriate analogous conditions the compounds of this invention can be made in a one pot process.

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