3-Fluorobenzoyl chloride → 3-Fluorobenzoyl isothiocyanate

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Potassium thiocyanate (11.03 g, 114 mmol) was suspended in acetone (63.1 mL) and heated to 40° C. under nitrogen atmosphere. To this was added 3-fluorobenzoyl chloride (11.35 mL, 95 mmol), and the resulting mixture was stirred at 50° C. for 6 hours. The heterogeneous mixture was filtered, and the solid was further washed with acetone. The filtrate was concentrated and purified by silica gel chromatography (10% EtOAc/Hexanes as the eluent) to afford 3-fluorobenzoyl isothiocyanate (6.5 g, 37.9% yield) as a light orange oil.

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