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Ethyl Cyclohexanone-β-carboxylate is an intermediate used to prepare carbazole-carboxamides with selective JAK2 inhibitory activities.

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 110, p. 2565, 1988 DOI: 10.1021/ja00216a033

Ethyl 3-oxocyclohexane-1-carboxylate is irritating to the eyes and skin, may cause respiratory irritation, and is harmful if swallowed.

To a round bottom flask was added 3-oxo-1-cyclohexanecarboxylic acid (3.85 g, 27.1 mmol), ethanol (7.91 mL), p-toluenesulfonic acid (0.097 g, 0.56 mmol) and toluene (65.9 mL). The mixture was refluxed with a Dean-star trap overnight. The reaction mixture was cooled down and concentrated under reduced pressure to afford 4.61 g (100 %) of the title compound, 3-oxo-cyclohexanecarboxylic acid ethyl ester (Ethyl 3-oxocyclohexane-1-carboxylate), as a yellow oil.

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