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    Any chance for a phenobarbital synthesis in the near future?

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    I've been trying to synthesize phenobarbital for some time now using the below pathway: The step I seem to be having issues on is unfortunately the very first one, which is the synthesis of the ethyl phenylcyanoacetate. Now there is an OrgSyn publication on it's synthesis (src) with the below...
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