Carbon Dioxide → HCID 22666419, compound

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Reaction Conditions

Reaction Steps

In 350 ml of tetrahydrofuran was dissolved 22.9 g of 2,6-difluoroanisole, and to the solution was added dropwise 110 ml of a 1.6 M solution of n-butyllithium in n-hexane at -70° C. over a period of 30 minutes. The resulting mixture was stirred at the same temperature for 1 hour, and carbon dioxide was introduced thereinto, after which the mixture was heated to 0° C. over a period of 1 hour. The reaction mixture was added to a mixed solvent of 300 ml of ethyl acetate and 700 ml of water and the pH was adjusted to 1 with 6N hydrochloric acid, after which the organic layer was separated. The organic layer obtained was washed with a saturated aqueous sodium chloride solution, followed by adding thereto a solution of diazomethane in diethyl ether, and the resulting mixture was stirred at room temperature for 10 minutes and distilled under reduced pressure to remove the solvent. The resulting residue was purified by a column chromatography (eluent; n-hexane:ethyl acetate=10:1) to obtain 16.8 g of methyl 2,4-difluoro-3-methoxybenzoate as colorless crystals.

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