Chloroacetone → HCID 20484445, compound

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Potassium iodide (0.075 g) was added to a stirred solution of chloroacetone (3 ml) in dry acetone (3.5 ml) and the mixture was stirred for 16 hours. 2-Methoxy-5-methyl-4-methylsulphinylphenol (5.0 g) and potassium carbonate (0.85 g) were heated at reflux with stirring in dry acetone (25 ml). The chloroacetone/potassium iodide solution and potassium carbonate (3.4 g) were then added in four equal portions over 2 hours. The mixture was heated at reflux for a further 2 hours, cooled and filtered, the filter cake being washed well with acetone. The acetone was removed under reduced pressure and the residue chromatographed on a column of silica gel eluting with methylene chloride/methanol mixtures (gradient I to 3% v/v methanol). Trituration with diethyl ether gave the ketone (4.6 g) as colourless crystals, m.p. 104°-106°.

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