Hydrochloric Acid → HCID 178450342, compound

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At 0° to 10° C., 600 ml of concentrated hydrochloric acid was added to a solution of 44.6 g of 2-butyryl-5-tert-butoxymethyl-3-hydroxycyclohex-2-en-1-one in ethanol. After 2 hours the mixture was concentrated, and the residue was taken up in dichloromethane and extracted by shaking with water. After concentration there was obtained 26.2 g of 2-butyryl-3-hydroxy-5-hydroxymethylcyclohex-2-en-1-one as a pale yellow oil (compound no. 3).

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