Hydrochloric Acid → HCID 69517224, compound

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A mixture of 3-chloro-2-hydroxy-5-methoxybenzaldehyde prepared as in Step 1 (9.00 g, 48.2 mmole), K2CO3 (6.67 g, 48.2 mmole) and ethyl 4,4,4-trifluorocrotonate (8.65 mL, 57.9 mmole) in anhydrous DMF (20 mL) under a dry N2 atmosphere was stirred at room temperature for 30 minutes and was then heated to 85° C. for 3 h. Additional ethyl 444-trifluorocrotonate (3.00 mL, 20.1 mmole) was then added and the mixture was stirred at 85° C. overnight. The mixture was then cooled and poured into 1 N HCl (200 mL). Following extraction with EtOAc (3×200 mL), the combined extracts were washed with 0.25 N NaOH until the washes were basic, brine, dried over MgSO4, filtered and concentrated in vacuo. The crude product was purified by crystallization from ethanol to give 11.0 g (68% yield) of the product as a yellow crystalline solid: 'H NMR (dmso-d6/300 MHz) 7.92 (s, 1H), 7.18 (d, 1H, J=2.8 Hz), 7.13 (d, 1H, J=2.8 Hz), 6.05 (q, 1H, J=7.3 Hz), 4.21-4.29 (m, 2H), 3.73 (s, 3H), 1.26 (t, 3H, J=7.1 Hz).

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