Hydrochloric Acid → 1-(3-Tert-butyldiphenylsilyloxymethyl-2,4-dichlorophenyl)-2-carboxypyrrole

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1-(3-tert-Butyldiphenylsilyloxymethyl-2,4-dichlorophenyl)-2-formylpyrrole (1.51 g) was dissolved in a mixture of water (8 ml) and tert-butyl alcohol (30 ml), and 2-methyl-2-butene (923 mg) and sodium dihydrogen phosphate (392 mg) were added to the mixture in water bath. To the mixture was added portionwise sodium chlorite (1.19 g), and the mixture was stirred for 1 day at the same temperature. The reaction mixture was cooled in an ice bath, adjusted to pH 4 with 1M hydrochloric acid and extracted with chloroform. The organic layer was separated, dried over magnesium sulfate and evaporated in vacuo. The residue was chromatographed on silica gel eluting with chloroform-n-hexane-methanol to give 1-(3-tert-butyldiphenylsilyloxymethyl-2,4-dichlorophenyl)-2-carboxypyrrole (1.12 g) as an oil.

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