Ethyl Acetate → 2-(4-Amino-2-chlorophenoxy)ethan-1-ol

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A mixture of tert-butyl-(2-(2-chloro-4-nitrophenoxy)ethoxy)dimethylsilane (475 mg, 1.4 mmol) and SnCl2.2H2O (1.07 g, 5.7 mmol) in EtOH (40 mL) was heated to reflux and stirred for 4 hr. After allowing to cool, the mixture was poured into EtOAc (50 mL) and saturated NaHCO3 (50 mL), then filtered through celite. The filtrate was partitioned and the aqueous layer extracted with EtOAc (2×50 mL). The combined organic layers were dried (Na2SO4), filtered and concentrated under vacuum to leave a crude residue. The residue was dry-loaded on to silica gel and purified by column chromatography on silica gel using EtOAc/heptane (2:8 to 1:0) as eluent to give the product (9 mg, 3% yield).

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