O-Xylene → HCID 178418425, compound

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tert-Butyl 2-ethoxycarbonyl imidazole-4-carboxylate can be prepared as follows: the procedure is as in Example 1 but starting from 15 g of ethyl α-aminooximinoacetate, 500 ml of xylene, 19.1 of triethylamine and 14.3 ml of tert-butyl propiolate. The crude product (19 g) is chromatographed on a silica column, eluting with a mixture of cyclohexane and ethyl acetate (50-50 by volume) to give 5 g of tert-butyl 2-ethoxycarbonylimidazole-4-carboxylate, employed as such in the subsequent syntheses.

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