Ethyl bromoacetate → (2-Isobutyryl-5-methoxy-phenoxy)-acetic acid ethyl ester

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To a solution of the above prepared 1-(2-hydroxy-4-methoxy-phenyl)-2-methyl-propan-1-one (5.43 g, 28 mmol) in 56 mL acetonitrile were successively added Cs2CO3 (10.9 g, 1.2 eq.) and ethyl bromoacetate (3.25 mL, 1.05 eq.) and the mixture vigorously stirred at ambient temperature for 2.5 h. Pouring onto crashed ice/NH4Cl, twofold extraction with AcOEt, washing with water, drying over sodium sulfate, and evaporation of the solvents left 8.01 g of the title product as light yellow oil, sufficiently pure to be used for the next step.

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