Chloromethyl Methyl Ether → HCID 9990880, compound

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9.5 g of 8-hydroxy-1-naphthol was dissolved in 210 ml of acetone, to which 22.7 g of hydrous potassium carbonate and 5.43 ml of chloromethyl methyl ether were added and refluxed for one hour under heating. The reaction solution was filtered and the filtrate was concentrated. 12.2 g of thus obtained yellow oily product was dissolved with no further purification into 250 ml of dichloromethane, to which 4.3 g of pyridinium trifluoro acetate and 18.3 g of pyridinium dichromate were added and stirred at a room temperature for 12 hours. After filtering off insoluble matters, the filtrate was concentrated and then purified on silica gel column chromatography (10% ethyl acetatemexane), to obtain in 5.1 g of the above-captioned compound as colorness crystals.

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