Water → (2-Amino-6-chlorophenyl)methanol

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2-Amino-6-chlorobenzoic acid (25.0 g, 143 mmol) was dissolved in 120 mL of anhydrous THF in a 500 mL 2 neck round bottom flask. The solution was cooled in an ice-water bath. 215 mL of 1.0 M lithium aluminum hydride (LAH) THF solution was then added dropwise. After all of the LAH was added, the reaction mixture was allowed to warm up to room temperature and stirred at room temperature for overnight. ˜10 mL of water was added to the reaction mixture followed by 7 g 15% NaOH. An additional 20 g of water was added to the reaction mixture. Decant the organic THF phase and the solid was added with ethyl acetate. ˜200 mL and stirring and combined ethyl acetate organic portion and THF portion and added Na2SO4 drying agent. The mixture was filtered and evaporated. ˜20 g yellow solid was obtained without further purification for next step reaction.

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