4-Formylbenzoic acid → 4-Formylbenzoyl chloride

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In a suspension of 1.00 g of 4-formyl benzoic acid in 15 ml of benzene, 0.87 g of thionyl chloride and 2 drops of N,N-dimethylformamide were added, and stirred under reflux with heat for 2 hours. After the completion of the reaction, the reaction mixture was left and cooled to room temperature, and the solvent was distilled off under reduced pressure to obtain 1.14 g of crude 4-formyl benzoic acid chloride as white crystal. In a solution of 0.66 g of 2,2,2-trifluoroethylamine and 0.81 g of triethylamine in 6 ml of chlororform, the solution of 1.14 g of the crude 4-formyl benzoic acid chloride in 6 ml of chloroform was added dropwise under cooling with ice and with stirring, after the completion of the addition dropwise, continued to stir at room temperature for further 18 hours. After the completion of the reaction, the reaction mixture was added in 30 ml of water, extracted with chloroform (20 ml×3). The organic phase was washed with water, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, the solvent was distilled off under reduced pressure, the residual solid was washed with hexane to obtain 1.32 g of the aimed product as white crystal.

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