3-Hydroxybenzaldehyde → HCID 20482781, compound

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1-iodonaphthalene (2.000 g) and 3-hydroxybenzaldehyde (1.442 g) were added to dioxane (25 mL). The solution was degassed and flushed with nitrogen three times. Cesium carbonate (5.13 g), N,N-dimethylglycine hydrochloride (82 mg), and copper (I) iodide (30 mg) were added, and the solution was heated at 90° C. overnight. The solution was cooled, added to 1M aqueous HCl, extracted with diethyl ether, dried with brine and anhydrous sodium sulfate. The solution was concentrated and purified by flash column chromatography on silica gel with 10% ethyl acetate in hexanes to provide the title compound.

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