Ethyl Acetate → HCID 53951647, compound

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Lithium aluminum hydride (2.39 g) was added portionwise to a solution of methoxymethyl 5-cyano-4-fluoro-2-methoxymethoxybenzoate (16.6 g) in diethyl ether (500 ml) at -30° C., and the mixture was stirred for 30 minutes. The reaction mixture was poured into a saturated brine, to which was added ethyl acetate, followed by filtration through celite. The organic layer was washed with a saturated brine, dried (anhydrous magnesium sulfate), and concentrated. The residue was chromatographed on silica gel using ethyl 10 acetate/hexane as eluent to give 5-cyano-4-fluoro-2-methoxymethoxybenzyl alcohol (10.0 g) (Compound B-49). The physical properties are shown in Table 8.

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