Reaction of 1,3-benzodioxole with sodium thioethoxide in DMF gave a good yield of ethyl o -hydroxyphenoxymethyl sulphide (3), which was converted into catechol nearly quantitatively by acid treatment. The same reagent converted methyl p -anisate into p -hydroxybenzoic acid, and methyl p -chlorophenoxyacetate to p -chlorophenol in good yield, indicating its usefulness in cleaving methyl esters and aryloxyacetates respectively.
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