Sodium Iodide → HCID 56640302, compound

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In a 1 L three necked round bottom flask equipped with a mechanical stirrer, thermometer and reflux condenser was added 300 mL acetone, 23.19 g of 2-allyl-3-hydroxybenzaldehyde (0.143 mole, 1 eq.), 2.13 g of sodium iodide (14 mmol., 0.1 eq), 39.52 g of potassium carbonate (28.6 mmol., 2 eq.) and 22.39 g of p-methoxybenzyl chloride (14.3 mmol., 1 eq.). The reaction mixture was heated to reflux for 4 hours. After cooling to room temperature, the reaction mixture was filtered through a bed of Hyflosupercel and the solvent removed by rotary evaporation. The residual dark oil was taken up in 200 mL of toluene and washed sequentially with 10% aqueous sodium hydroxide, water and brine. The organic phase was dried over sodium sulfate and decolourized with 5 g Darco G60. After filtration through a Celite pad, the solvent was removed by rotary evaporation to give 35.5 g of oil which was then recrystallized from 175 mL of hot IPA. After cooling to room temperature and further cooling to 0-5° C., the solids were filtered and washed with IPA to afford after drying at 40° C., 24.74 g (61%) of 2-allyl-3-(4-methoxy-benzyloxy)-benzaldehyde as an off-white solid.

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