Potassium Carbonate → 4-(N-4-hydroxybutyl-N-butylamino)benzaldehyde

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To a three neck flask fitted with a mechanical stirrer, a thermometer, and a condenser, is added 124 g (1 mole) of 4-fluorobenzaldehyde, 145.3 g (1 mole) of N-butyl-N-4-hydroxybutylamine, 138.2 g (1 mole) of anhydrous potassium carbonate, and dimethylsulfoxide. The mixture is then heated at 95° C. until the reaction is complete. After cooling to room temperature, the solution is poured into a four-fold excess of ice water, and the solid product is collected by filtration and purified by recrystallization from tetrahydrofuran/benzene.

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