Dimethylformamide → HCID 178441973, compound

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Phosphorus oxychloride (18.2 mL, 195 mmol) was added portionwise to DMF (30 mL, 387 mmol) at <5° C. Pinacolone semicarbazone (15.4 g, 97.6 mmol) was added over 1 h maintaining the temperature at <5° C. The reaction mixture became very thick so an additional quantity of DMF (10 mL) was added. The mixture was heated to 60° C. for 3.5 h then allowed to cool and poured into ice. The reaction was neutralised using sodium hydroxide (40 g, 1 mol) in water (130 mL) then heated at 60° C. for 5 min. The mixture was cooled in an ice bath and acidified to pH 6 and the product extracted into EtOAc. The EtOAc was dried over MgSO4 and concentrated onto silica. The crude product was purified by flash chromatography using eluants EtOAc/heptane. Trituration in diethyl ether gave a white solid (1.02 g, 6.1 mmol, 6%).

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