Toluene → 2-Heptyl-6-(5-ethyl-2-pyrimidinyl)naphthalene

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Reaction Steps

NaOH (1.1 g, 26 mmols) was added to anhydrous methanol (40 ml) and dissolved therein by heating to 60° C. with stirring. To the solution was added 6-heptyl-2-naphthalenecarboxamidine hydrochloride (4.0 g, 13 mmols) to prepare a suspension with stirring. To this suspension was dropwise added over one minute a solution obtained by dissolving α-ethyl-β-dimethylaminoacrolein (1.7 g, 13 mmols) in anhydrous methanol (5 ml), followed by gently refluxing the mixture with stirring for 2 hours, distilling off methanol under the atmospheric pressure after completion of the reaction, adding toluene (50 ml) to the residue to extract the resulting product, washing the extraction solution with a 2N-NaOH aqueous solution and then with water, drying over anhydrous sodium sulfate, and distilling off toluene under reduced pressure to obtain solids, which were then recrystallized from ethanol to obtain the objective 2-heptyl-6-(5-ethyl-2-pyrimidinyl)naphthalene (2.5 g, 7.8 mmols) (yield: 60%). M.P.: 62.3°-63.1° C.

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