Hydrochloric Acid → HCID 15136264, compound

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In 60 ml of anhydrous tetrahydrofuran was dissolved 6.00 g of ethyl 4-(2-carboxycyclopropyl)-2,3,5-trifluorobenzoate. To the resulting solution was added 42 ml of a 1M solution of borane in tetrahydrofuran with ice-cooling. The resulting mixture was stirred for 1.5 hours at room temperature. The reaction mixture was added to a mixture of 100 ml of ethyl acetate and 100 ml of water. The resulting mixture was adjusted to pH 1 with 2N hydrochloric acid. 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: toluene/ethyl acetate=4/1) to obtain 4.40 g (yield: 77.1%) of ethyl 4-(2-hydroxymethylcyclopropyl)-2,3,5-trifluorobenzoate.

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