N,N-Dimethylglycine → HCID 118114109, compound

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A mixture of 1,3-dibromo-5-tert-butylbenzene (2.92 g, 10.0 mmol, 1.0 eq), 1H-imidazole (0.69 g, 10.0 mmol, 1.0 eq), CuI (0.19 g, 1.0 mmol, 0.10 eq), K2CO3 (2.76 g, 20.0 mmol, 2.0 eq) and 2-(dimethylamino)acetic acid (0.21 g, 2.0 mmol, 0.20 eq) in DMSO (10 mL) was stirred at a temperature of 110° C. for four days under a nitrogen atmosphere, then cooled down to ambient temperature. The mixture was diluted with plenty of ethyl acetate and filtered. The filtrate was washed with water three times, dried over sodium sulfate, then filtered, and the filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was purified through column chromatography on silica gel using hexane and ethyl acetate as an eluent to obtain the desired product, 1-(3-bromo-5-tert-butylphenyl)-1H-imidazole 7, as a brown sticky liquid (1.56 g in 56% yield).

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