Acetic Acid → 3-(propan-2-yloxy)phenol

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In 10 ml of THF, 1.5 g of resorcinol was dissolved and 2.24 ml of DBU was added under ice cooling. The resultant mixture was stirred for 10 min at room temperture. To the mixture, 1.92 ml of isopropyl bromide was added and refluxed for 2 hr. The reaction mixture was neutralized with acetic acid and evaporated under reduced pressure. The evaporated residue was redissolved in ethyl acetate and washed with 5% aqueous citric acid solution and saturated aqueous sodium chloride solution, successively, and dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate. The dried solution was evaporated under reduced pressure and the residue was subjected to a silica gel column chromatography (chloroform:methanol=40:1) to give 466 mg of the title compound.

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