Sulfuric Acid → 1-Bromo-3-(dimethoxymethyl)benzene

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Commercial 2-(3-Bromo-phenyl)-[1,3]dioxolane (1.3 mL, 8.64 mmol) was dissolved in anhydrous MeOH (40 mL) and catalytic amount of H2SO4 was added. The resulting reaction mixture was stirred 4 h at rt and finally extracted with petroleum ether (3×50 mL). The combined organic phases were washed with NaHCO3 (40 mL), dried (MgSO4), filtered and concentrated under vacuum to give 22b as a colourless oil (1.76 g, 88%), whose spectroscopic data were in close agreement with literature (29).

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