Chloroacetone → HCID 58170471, compound

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Potassium hydrogen carbonate (0.204 g, 2.0 mmol) was added to a solution of 3-iodo-4-methylbenzenecarboximidamide (preparation 59a, 0.53 g, 0.54 mmol) in tetrahydrofuran (5 mL) and water (1 mL) and the mixture was heated to reflux. Then 1-chloropropan-2-one (0.16 mL, 2.1 mmol) in tetrahydrofuran (2.50 mL) was added dropwise over 20 min and the mixture was refluxed overnight. The mixture was evaporated and the residue purified by flash chromatography (2:1 hexanes/ethyl acetate) to give the title compound (0.13 g, 22%) as a white solid.

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