Ammonia → HCID 58727890, compound

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Reaction Steps

2-Methyl-benzoic acid (1.36 g, 10 mmol) was dissolved in CHCl3 (8 mL), added ClSO3H (5.83 g, 3.32 mL, 50 mmol) and stirred at 60° C. for 22 h. The reaction mixture was cooled to rt and then added carefully to a stirred solution of 25% NH3 in H2O (75 mL). The obtained solution was acidified to pH=2 using conc. HCl. The precipitate was collected by filtration, washed with H2O affording the title compound as a white powder (1.37 g).

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