Potassium Carbonate → Methyl 2-chloro-4-(cyclopropylmethylamino)benzoate

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Cyclopropylmethylamine (1.51 g) and potassium carbonate (1.46 g) were added to a solution of methyl 2-chloro-4-fluorobenzoate (1.00 g). The reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 6 hours and then heated with stirring at 100° C. for 6 hours under a microwave reactor. The reaction mixture was diluted with water and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer was washed with brine and dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate. The filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure and the residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography to obtain the title compound (1.23 g).

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