Ammonium Chloride → 2-Chloro-9-cyclopentyl-5,7,8,9-tetrahydro-pyrimido[4,5-b][1,4]diazepin-6-one

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Methyl 3-[cyclopentyl(2-chloro-5-nitropyrimidin-4-yl)amino]propanoate (1.0 g, 0.003 mol, 1 eq) and NH4Cl (1.38 g, 0.025 mol, 8.5 eq) were added to EtOH/H2O (4:1, 10 mL) and the mixture heated to reflux. Iron powder (1.36 g, 0.024 mol, 8 eq) was added portionwise and after 2 h the RM was hot filtered through celite washing through with EtOAc (10 mL) and EtOH (10 mL) [both hot]. The solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure to give the product as a brown solid (0.35 g, 43%); 1H (DMSO-d6): δ 1.55 (4H, m, 2CH2), 1.7 (2H, m, CH2), 1.83 (2H, m, CH2), 2.66 (2H, t, J=5 Hz, CH2), 3.57 (2H, t, J=5 Hz, CH2), 5.01 (1H, m, CH), 7.83 (1H, s, CH), 9.71 (1H, s, NH); MS+ve: 267.2; Rt=2.87 min (Analytical—1).

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