Sodium hydride → HCID 67053515, compound

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Reaction Steps

A 250 mL round-bottom flask was purged with nitrogen and charged with NaH (95%, 0.2 g, 8.3 mmol). THF (10 mL) added, and the mixture cooled to 0° C. After 5 minutes, a solution of 4,5-dibromo-2-cyclobutyl-1H-imidazole (1.76 g, 6.29 mmol, ˜40% purity) in THF (20 mL) was added dropwise from an addition funnel over 5 minutes. The reaction was stirred at 0° C. for 35 minutes and SEMCl (1.8 mL, 10.2 mmol) was then added dropwise over 2 minutes. After 5 minutes, ice bath was removed, and the reaction stirred at room temperature for 4 hours. LCMS indicated complete reaction. The reaction was then carefully quenched with water (1.5 mL). Heptane (250 mL) was added and organic layer was washed with water (200 mL). The aqueous layer was extracted with heptane (100 mL), and the combined organic layers were washed with water and brine, dried (Na2SO4), and concentrated to give 2.14 g of crude material. The crude material was purified by flash chromatography (SiO2; EtOAc in heptane) to afford 4,5-dibromo-2-cyclobutyl-1-((2-(trimethylsilyl)ethoxy)methyl)-1H-imidazole (0.43 g) as a yellow oil: LCMS (m/z) 408.9 (MH+), tR=1.25 minutes.

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