Ethyl Acetate → HCID 17995915, compound

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Reaction Steps

1-(4-fluoro-3-nitrophenyl)ethanone (1.0 g, 5.46 mmol) was dissolved in MeOH (15.0 ml) and stirred over ice bath. NaBH4 (0.62 g, 16.0 mmol) was added portionwise. Upon completion of the addition, the reaction mixture was stirred at rt for 10 minutes. The reaction mixture was poured into EtOAc and brine. The organic layer was separated, dried over MgSO4 and evaporated. The resulting material was purified by flash chromatography on silica eluting with 20% to 70% EtOAc/Hexane to afford the title compound (881 mg, yield: 87%). %). 1H-NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3) δ 1.53 (d, 4H) 4.99 (dd, 1H) 7.22-7.33 (m, 1H) 7.66 (ddd, 1H) 8.09 (dd, 1H)

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