Sodium Hydroxide → 5-Methoxybenzofuran-2-carboxylic acid

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The above prepared 5-methoxy-benzofuran-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (0.500 g, 2.27 mmol) was dissolved in 4.6 mL of THF/ethanol=1/1 and treated with 2.27 mL of aq. NaOH (3M, 3 eq.). The mixture was stirred for 2 h at ambient temperature and was then poured onto crashed ice/AcOEt/HCl dil.; the organic layer was washed with water, dried over sodium sulfate, and evaporated to dryness to leave 0.428 g of the title acid as off-white solid.

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