Water → 4-{[(3-Chloro-4-hydroxyphenyl)thio]methyl}benzaldehyde

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Triethylamine (5.0 mL, 35.9 mmol) was added dropwise to a solution of 2-chloro-4-mercaptophenol (3.60 g, 22.4 mmol) and 4-bromomethyl benzaldehyde (3.93 g, 19.7 mmol) in dioxane (150 mL) at room temperature under nitrogen. The reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 20 hours. Water (100 mL) was added to the reaction mixture and it was then partitioned with ethyl acetate and brine (200 mL each). The aqueous layer was re-extracted with ethyl acetate (100 mL). The combined organic layers were dried over sodium sulphate and concentrated in vacuo affording a yellow solid. This was purified by trituration with acetonitrile (5 mL/g) for 30 minutes. After filtration this afforded a light yellow solid as the pure product, 84% yield, 5.27 g.

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