Potassium Carbonate → methyl 3-(2-formyl-1H-pyrrol-1-yl)benzoate

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Phosphoryl chloride (5.5 ml) was dropwise added to N,N-dimethylformamide (4.6 ml) under ice-cooling and the mixture was stirred for 15 minutes at 40°-50° C. To the mixture was added a solution of methyl 3-(pyrrol-1-yl)benzoate (6.0 g) in N,N-dimethylformamide (30 ml) at ambient temperature and the whole was stirred for 3 hours at 110°-120° C. An ice-cooling mixture was poured into ice-water and the mixture was adjusted to pH 9 with potassium carbonate. The mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate. The extract was washed with brine, dried over magnesium sulfate and evaporated in vacuo. The residue was triturated with diisopropyl ether to give methyl 3-(2-formylpyrrol-1-yl)benzoate (5.31 g).

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