Sodium Hydroxide → 3-Fluoro-7-methoxy-2-methylquinoline

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2-Chloro-3-fluoro-7-methoxyquinoline (210 g, 1 mmol), (prepared as described for the starting material in Example 157), in anhydrous THF (1 ml) was added to a mixture of copper(I)bromide (570 mg, 4.0 mmol) and methylmagnesium bromide (3.0M solution in diethyl ether, 2.7 ml, 8 mmol) in anhydrous THF (20 ml) at −78° C. The mixture was stirred for 1 hour at −78° C., allowed to warm to ambient temperature and then stirred for a further 18 hours. Saturated aqueous ammonium chloride solution and 5N aqueous sodium hydroxide solution (pH 12) were added and the product extracted with ethyl acetate (3×). The organic solution was washed with water, brine, dried (MgSO4) and evaporated to dryness to yield 3-fluoro-7-methoxy-2-methylquinoline (0.17 g, 91%).

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