Methoxymethyl-triphenylphosphonium chloride → HCID 67148474, compound

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Reaction Steps

1.23 g methoxymethyltriphenylphoshonium chloride is suspended in 10 mL THF and cooled to −78° C. 2.20 mL butyllithium (1.6 M in hexanes) is added dropwise and the resulting mixture is stirred for 30 min at −78° C. and then warmed in an ice bath to 0° C. After addition of a solution of 734 mg 6-formyl-2-(3-methoxy-6-pyridin-4-yl-pyridazin-4-yl)-indole-1-carboxylic acid tert-butyl ester (see above) in 5 mL THF, the reaction mixture is heated to reflux for 5 hours. After cooling to rt, the reaction mixture is diluted with heptanes, washed with water, dried (MgSO4) and concentrated in vacuo. The resulting 280 mg crude enol ether is directly used in the next step.

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