Hydrochloric Acid → 4-(4-Hydroxy-phenylsulfanyl)-3-nitro-phenol

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A solution of 4-Chloro-3-nitro-phenol (2.0 g, 11.52 mmol), 4-hydroxythiophenol (1.45 g, 11.52 mmol) and cesium carbonate (11.26 g, 34.56 mmol) in N,N-dimethylformamide (25 mL) was heated to 100° C. for 4 hours. After cooling to room temperature, 1N aqueous Hydrochloric acid (150 mL) was added and the resultant solution extracted with ethyl acetate (2×100 mL), the combined extracts dried over magnesium sulfate, filtered and concentrated under vacuum to provide the crude title compound which was purified by chromatography on silica gel using hexanes/ethyl acetate as eluent to obtain the title product as a bright orange solid (1.35 g, 45%).

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