Water → 2-(4-Cyclohexylamino-3-nitrophenyl)benzoxazole

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To a suspension of 2-(4-fluoro-3-nitrophenyl)benzoxazole (see Working Example 15-2) (300 mg, 1.19 mmol) in ethanol (5 mL) was added sodium hydrogen carbonate (295 mg, 2.32 mmol) and cyclohexylamine (288 mg, 2.32 mmol), and this was heated to reflux with stirring for 4 hours. After the reaction was complete, this was cooled to room temperature, water was added, and this was extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic layer obtained was dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated to give crystals that were purified by silica gel column chromatography to yield the title compound (191 mg, 48% yield) as orange crystals.

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