Ethyl (chloroformyl)acetate → Ethyl 7-iodo-6-methylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-3-carboxylate

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To a suspension of 4-iodo-5-methylpyridin-2-amine (I-28A) (1.55 g. 6.6 mmol), sodium bicarbonate (0.67 g, 7.9 mmol) in dry dimethoxyethane (10 mL) at room temperature, ethyl 2-chloro-3-oxopropanoate (1 g, 6.41 mmol) in dimethoxyethane (1 mL) was added dropwise. The reaction mixture was heated to 100° C. for 1 h and then cooled to room temperature and diluted with dichloromethane (50 mL). The organic layer was washed with water, brine, dried over sodium sulfate and concentrated in vacuo. The brown crude oil was purified by silica gel chromatography with a gradient of 0-15% ethyl acetate/hexanes to yield ethyl 7-iodo-6-methylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-3-carboxylate (I-28B) as light tan solid. 1H-NMR (400 MHz, DMSO) δ 9.11 (s, 1H), 8.41 (s, 1H), 8.22 (s, 1H), 4.36 (q, J=7.2 Hz, 2H), 2.42 (s, 3H), 1.37 (t, J=7.2 Hz, 3H). MS m/z 331.0 (M+1).

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