Hydrochloric Acid → 2-(4-Bromophenyl)-2-methylpropanoic acid

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Methyl 2-(4-bromophenyl)-2-methylpropanoate (3.75 g, 14.6 mmol, prepared according to J. Org. Chem., 59:2620-2622(1994)) in 150 mL of THF was allowed to react with potassium trimethylsilanolate (2.62 g, 20.4 mmol) at ambient temperature, for 60 hours, with continuous stirring. The reaction was then diluted with water and DCM. The pH of the aqueous phase was then adjusted to ca. 4, using 1M HCl. The aqueous layer was then extracted three times with additional DCM. The organic layers were pooled, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and then concentrated to obtain 3.59 g of 2-(4-bromophenyl)-2-methylpropanoic acid, as a white solid, which gave LC/MS and proton NMR spectra consistent with theory.

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