Diethyl Ether → 2,4-Dichloro-6-methyl-1,3,5-triazine

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Methylmagnesium bromide, 3M in ether (Aldrich, St. Louis, Mo.) (10.0 mL, 30 mmol) was added slowly to a white suspension of 2,4,6-trichloro-1,3,5-triazine (Aldrich, St. Louis, Mo.) (3.68 g, 20 mmol) in DCM (25.0 mL, 389 mmol) at 0° C. and the resulting yellow suspension was warmed up to room temperature and stirring was continued until disappearance of starting material (TLC, KMnO4 stain, 3 h). The reaction was carefully quenched with NH4Cl(aq) at 0° C. and then diluted with water and DCM (25.0 mL). The separated organic layer was dried, filtered and concentrated to give 2,4-dichloro-6-methyl-1,3,5-triazine as a yellow solid (2.94 g, 90%) which was used for further reaction without purification. 1H-NMR (CDCl3, 400 MHz) δ 2.74 (s, 3H).

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