Ethyl 2-oxocyclopentanecarboxylate → HCID 20026019, compound

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Reaction Steps

7.00 g of 4-chloro-2-fluoro-5-isopropoxyphenylurea and 4.44 g of ethyl cyclopentanone-2-carboxylate are heated at reflux temperature for 1.5 hours with 0.3 g of toluene-4-sulphonic acid monohydrate in 150 ml of benzene. The water which forms is removed with a water separator. The reaction mixture is subsequently evaporated to dryness and the residue is purified by chromatography on a silica gel column using methylene chloride as the eluent and recrystallized from diethyl ether/n-hexane. There is obtained ethyl 2-[3-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-5 -isopropoxyphenyl)-ureido]-1-cyclopentenecarboxylate, m.p. 166°-169° C.

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