Dimethylformamide → HCID 58760951, compound

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To a solution of 5-bromo-1-(4-chloro-phenyl)-2-(2-chloro-phenyl)-1H-imidazole-4-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (I-2d, 4.4 g, 0.01 mmol) in anhydrous THF (100 ml) at −78° C. was slowly added tert.-butyl lithium (13 ml of 1.7 M solution in pentane, 0.22 mol). After 1 hour, DMF (7.7 ml, 0.1 mL) was added dropwise. The reaction mixture was stirred at −78° C. for 2.5 hours, quenched with sat'd aq. NH4Cl (10 ml), allowed to slowly warm to room temperature, and finally poured into sat'd aq. NaCl. The aqueous solution was extracted with Et2O (3×) and the combined organic extracts were dried (Na2SO4) and concentrated in vacuo. The crude residue was purified via flash chromatography using a solvent gradient of 1:3 EtOAc/hexanes to 1:1 EtOAc/hexanes to give the desired product I-2e as a pale yellow amorphous glass (2.0 g): +APCI MS (M+1) 389.2; 1H NMR (CD2Cl2) δ 1.41 (3H, t), 4.45 (2H, q), 7.09–7.14 (2H, m), 7.24–7.39 (7H, m), 10.50 (1H, s).

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