Ethyl Acetate → 7-Hydroxy-6-methyl-8-nitro-2H-oxazolo[3,2-A]pyridin-5(3H)-one

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2-Nitromethylene-oxazolidine (3 g, 23.0 mmol) was added portion wise to a stirred solution of 2-methyl-malonic acid bis-(2,4,6-trichloro-phenyl) ester (12 g, 25.15 mmol) in Xylene (50 mL) under nitrogen atmosphere over a period of 1 hour at 125° C. The resulting mixture was heated to 125° C. for 5 hours. The reaction mixture was monitored by TLC (50% ethylacetate in hexane). The reaction mixture was concentrated and the concentrate was purified by column chromatography on silica gel (60% ethylacetate in hexane) to afford 1.5 g of the product (30% yield).

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