N-bromobutanimide → 3-benzyl-6-(benzyloxy)-5-bromopyrimidin-4(3H)-one

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3-benzyl-6-(benzyloxy)-pyrimidin-4(3H)-one (from Step 1) (5.00 g, 17.1 mmol) and N-bromosuccinimide (3.15 g, 17.7 mmol) are stirred in 100 ml anhydrous dimethylformamide for 20 hours. The solution is poured onto 1 L of ice with stirring and allowed to come to room temperature, when the product is collected by filtration. (5.97 g). The product is recrystallized from 60 mL hot acetonitrile (4.75 g, 75%) 1H-NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ 7.92 (s, 1H), 7.28-7.44 (overlapping m, 9H), 7.24 (s, 1H), 5.43 (s, 2H), 5.12 (s, 2H). LC/MS tr=5.89 minutes (0-95% acetonitrile/water, 0.05% trifluoroacetic acid, over 6 minutes at 1 ml/min with detection at 254 nm, at 50° C.) ES-MS m/z 371 (M+H). HRMS m/z 371 (M+H) 371.0399, calc. 371.0395.

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