Hydrazine hydrate (1:1) → HCID 178470500, compound

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Hydrazine monohydrate (0.13 ml, 3 mmol) was added at ambient temperature to a solution of 3-(4-chloro-benzoyl)-2-oxo-pentanoic acid ethyl ester (740 mg, 3 mmol) in ethanol (4 ml) under an argon atmosphere. The solution was stirred for 8 h at reflux temperature, the solvent was removed under reduced pressure and the residue partitioned between 1 M HCl/ice water and ethyl acetate. The aqueous layer was extracted two times with ethyl acetate, the combined extracts were washed with brine (3 times) and dried over sodium sulfate. Removal of the solvent under reduced pressure left an orange oil which was purified by column chromatography (silica gel, heptane/AcOEt) to give 355 mg (1.27 mmol, 49%) of the title compound as yellow crystals.

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