Water → Ethyl 4-(2-tert-butoxycarbonylcyclopropyl)-2,3,5trifluorobenzoate

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In 10 ml of tert-butyl acetate was dissolved 1.00 g of ethyl 4-(2-carboxycyclopropyl)-2,3,5-trifluorobenzoate. To the resulting solution was added 0.2 ml of a 70% aqueous perchloric acid solution. The resulting mixture was stirred at room temperature for 1 hour. To the reaction mixture were added 40 ml of ethyl acetate and 20 ml of water in this order. The organic layer was separated, washed with water and a saturated aqueous sodium chloride solution in this order, and dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate. The solvent was removed by distillation under reduced pressure. The residue obtained was purified by a column chromatography (eluant: n-hexane/toluene=1/1) to obtain 0.81 g (yield: 68.1%) of ethyl 4-(2-tert-butoxycarbonylcyclopropyl)-2,3,5trifluorobenzoate.

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