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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Sci. 2013 Aug;4(8):3304–3309. doi: 10.1039/C3SC50424G

Scheme 3.

Scheme 3

Synthesis of the aldehyde 6. Reagents and conditions: (a) bromoacetaldehyde dimethyl acetal (1.4 equiv), K2CO3 (6 equiv), DMF, 150 °C, 16 h, 97%; (b) Amberlyst-15 resin (10 mol %), MeCN:water (5:1), 85 °C, 20 h, 88%.