Sodium Methoxide → 2-Butyl-6-(2,2-dimethyl-1-oxopropyl)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidin-4(3H)-one

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A mixture of 1.3 g of ethyl 1-(2,2-dimethyl-1-oxopropyl)-4-oxo-3-piperidinecarboxylate and 0.75 g of valeramidine hydrochloride in 10 ml of anhydrous ethyl alcohol is treated with 5.3 ml of a 1M solution of sodium methoxide in methanol. The resulting mixture is stirred and heated at reflux for one hour. The reaction mixture is allowed to cool over 30 minutes then filtered. The filtrate is evaporated to a gummy residue and stirred with 40 ml of ether for 30 minutes, filtered and the cake washed with ether. The cake is dried at 56° C. under vacuum to afford 1.0 g of the desired product as a colorless solid, m.p. 167°-172° C.

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