Carbon Dioxide → HCID 22314472, compound

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BuLi (1.6 M in hexane, 27.1 mL, 43.4 mmol) was added to a solution of 3,5-difluoro-(4-fluoro-benzyloxy)-benzene (10.5 g, 41.4 mmol) in dry THF at −78° C., under Argon, and the reaction mixture maintained at this temperature for 1 h whereupon carbon dioxide gas was bubbled into the solution over a 10 min period. The reaction mixture was then warmed up to room temperature and water added. The resulting mixture was extracted with diethyl ether. The aqueous phase was adjusted to pH 2 with HCl and extracted with ethyl acetate. The combined ethyl acetate layers were washed with HCl (0.1 N), then dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and evaporated to leave a white solid. This was triturated with pentane-diethyl ether to afford the title compound (6.8 g, 59%) as a white solid. MS: m/e=280.9 (M−H−).

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