the desired product was a thick oil b p 140 u00b0 c 1 0 mm hg nmr confirmed the assigned structure str5 following the general procedure of example 1 but using the appropriately substituted starting materials compound 3 was prepared in 58 yield calculated from the amide as a thick oil having a refractive index at 25 u00b0 c of 1 5946 nmr confirmed the assigned structure str6 a mixture of 20 g 0 086 mole of n 2 2 4 dichlorophenoxy ethyl acetamide 12 4 g 0 086 mole of pocl 3 was stirred at 50 u00b0 60 u00b0 c for five hours after cooling to u02dc 25 u00b0 c 12 2 g 0 086 mole of 4 chloro 2 methylaniline was added to the mixture an exotherm was noted the reaction mixture was stirred at reflux for eight hours allowed to cool and then made basic with a 20 naoh water solution an emulsion was obtained making phasing difficult the solution was made slightly acidic and phasing was obtained the product layer was separated dried over potassium carbonate filtered and distilled under reduced pressure the resulting oil was heated in 200 mls toluene filtered hot and cooled the toluene phase was poured into 200 mls of n hexane and cooled to dry ice acetone bath temperatures the solids obtained were filtered off the liquid phase was distilled under reduced pressure to produce 8 2 g 26 yield from the amide of a thick oil having a refractive index at 25 u00b0 c of 1 6013 nmr spectra confirmed the assigned structure str7 the n 2 phenoxy ethyl amide starting material may be prepared by reacting an appropriate phenol with an appropriate oxazoline both of which are available commercially in.