Sodium hydride → 4-Chloro-1-((2-(trimethylsilyl)ethoxy)methyl)-1H-pyrrolo(2,3-b)pyridine

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To a suspension of NaH (88 mg, 60% in mineral oil, 2.2 mmol) in DMF (1 mL) was added 4-chloro-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine (305 mg, 2 mmol, prepared according to Thibault, C. et al. Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 5023) at room temperature with stirring. The mixture was stirred for 5 min and trimethylsilylethyl chloromethyl ether (350 mg, 2.1 mmol, Aldrich) was added. The mixture was stirred at room temperature for 1 h, poured onto ice, and extracted with ethyl acetate (3×10 mL). The combined extracts were washed with brine, dried (MgSO4) and concentrated under reduced pressure to give the crude product, which was purified by flash chromatograph (5% ethyl acetate in hexanes) to afford the title compound (300 mg, 1.06 mmol, 53%) as a liquid. 1H NMR (CDCl3) δ 8.28 (d, 1H, J=5.5 Hz), 7.45 (d, 1H, J=3.6 Hz), 7.18 (d, 1H, J=5.5 Hz), 6.69 (d, 1H, J=3.6 Hz), 5.74 (s, 2H), 3.60 (t, 2H, J=6.8 Hz), 0.96 (t, 2H, J=6.8 Hz), 0.07 (s, 9H); MS(ESI+) m/z 283 and 285 (M+H, 1 Cl)+.

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