Chloroform → 4-Hexadecyloxyphenoxyacetic acid methyl ester

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A mixture of 23 g of p-(hexadecyloxy)phenol, 13.35 g of methyl bromoacetate, 10.45 g of potassium carbonate in 200 ml of acetone is refluxed for 24 hours. The mixture is cooled, chloroform added and filtered. The filtrate is evaporated and the residue crystallized from hexane to give 25 g of the desired compound as a gray white solid.

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