Hydroxyphenylacetic acid → HCID 19748801, compound

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Reaction Steps

To a solution of 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid (50.0 gm, 0.33 mol) in DMSO (300 mL) was added 50% aqueous NaOH (57.0 gm, 0.71 mol) with stirring. After stirring for 10 min at room temperature bromoacetaldehyde diethyl acetal (66.0 gm, 0.33 mol) was added. The solution was heated at 100°-110° C. for 2 hr when an additional 2 gm of 50% NaOH was added. After heating for another hour the reaction mixture was cooled and poured into a mixture of aqueous HCl (30 mL of conc. HCl in 400 mL ice-H2O) and Et2O. The layers were separated and hexane was added to the Et2O layer. The organic layer was washed successively with H2O (twice) and saturated NaCl before being dried over Na2SO4, filtered and evaporated to dryness to give 83.7 gm (0.31 mol) of 4-[(2,2-diethoxy)ethoxy]phenylacetic acid which was suitable for use in the next step.

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