Felbinac → N-methoxy-N-methyl-4-biphenylacetamide

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N,O-Dimethylhydroxylamine hydrochloride (550 mg, 5.6 mmol) was added to a mixture of biphenyl-4-ylacetic acid (Aldrich, Cat. #196487) (1 g, 5 mmol), benzotriazol-1-yloxytris(dimethylamino)phosphonium hexafluorophosphate (2.5 g, 5.6 mmol), and N,N-diisopropylethylamine (1.6 mL, 9.4 mmol) in N,N-dimethylformamide (20 mL). The reaction was stirred for 3 h. at r.t., and was partitioned between water and ethyl acetate. The organic phase was washed with saturated brine, dried over magnesium sulfate, filtered and concentrated under reduced pressure to give the crude product, which was purified by Flash chromatography on a silica gel column (EtOAc:Hexane, 1:3 to 1:1) gave 2-biphenyl-4-yl-N-methoxy-N-methylacetamide (0.9 g, 70%) as a white solid. Analytical LCMS (M+H)+: m/z=255.9.

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