Trifluoroacetic acid → Methyl (3-bromo-4-nitrophenyl)acetate

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The 2-(3-bromo-4-nitrophenyl)malonic acid tert-butyl ester methyl ester (1.18 g) obtained in Example 4 a) was dissolved in chloroform (10 mL), trifluoroacetic acid (10 g) was added thereto under ice-cooling, and the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 5 hours. The reaction mixture was poured gradually into ice and saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate, and extracted with ethyl acetate. The extract was washed with water and saturated brine, dried over sodium sulfate and concentrated to give the title compound (0.820 g) as a pale yellow oil.

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