1,2-Dimethoxyethane → ethyl imidazo[1,2-a]pyrazine-2-carboxylate

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Ethyl bromopyruvate (62.9 g) was added to the DME (258 mL) solution of 2-aminopyrazine (24.8 g) at room temperature and stirred for 2.5 h. The reaction mixture was cooled to 0° C. and stirred for 30 min to afford a pale brown precipitate. The precipitate was filtered and washed with Et2O to give pale brown crystals. The suspension of the precipitate (66.1 g) in EtOH (1.29 L) was heated at reflux temperature to turn to clear solution. After refluxing for 2 h, the reaction mixture was concentrated under reduced pressure, then mixed with CHCl3 and saturated NaHCO3aq. The mixture was filtered through a pad of Celite and the separated organic layer was dried (MgSO4) and filtered. The filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was applied to silica gel column chromatography, then the column was eluted with CHCl3-MeOH (99/1˜97/3), and collected fractions were concentrated under reduced pressure followed by recrystallization from CHCl3-Et2O. The titled compound was obtained as pale pink crystals. Yield: 10.9 g, 22%).

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