Sodium hydride → N-[4-chloro-2'-fluoro-5'-[(phenylthio)methoxy]phenyl]-3-(trifluoromethyl)glutarimide

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While kept under N2, 0.15 g (3.7 mmol, 60% dispersion in oil) sodium hydride was washed with pentanes (2×0.5 ml), then suspended in 2 ml of dry THF (fleshly distilled from sodium/benzophenone). To the suspension, cooled in an ice bath, were added 1.1 g (3.4 mmol) of N-(4'-chloro-2'-fluoro-5'-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(trifluoromethyl)glutarimide (Compound 19) dissolved in 3.5 ml of dry THF (freshly distilled from sodium/benzophenone) and two 1 ml rinses of dry THF. The reaction was then allowed to warm to room temperature and stirred for 15 minutes. The flask was again cooled in an ice bath while a solution of chloromethyl phenyl sulfide (0.46 ml, 0.54 g, 3.4 mmol) in 3 ml dry THF was added dropwise. The reaction mixture was allowed to warm slowly to room temperature and stirred for about 24 hours, then warmed to 50° C. for 54 hours. The THF was evaporated in vacuo (2-10 Torr) and the reaction mixture was taken up in 12 ml anhydrous dimethylformamide. The reaction was heated to 100° C. for 8 hours then cooled to room temperature. The reaction mixture was suction filtered through a short pad of neutral alumina and rinsed with 30 ml EtOAc. The filtrate was evaporated in vacuo and the residue was dried in the vacuum oven for 12 hours (20-50 Torr, 50° C.). The resulting oil was vacuum distilled (2-10 Torr, 70° C.). The residue was chromatographed (silica gel, 1:1 hexanes/methylene chloride) to yield 350 mg (23% yield) of the desired product as a white solid, m.p. 108°-109.5° C.

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