Phosphorus oxychloride → 4-Chloro-6-nitroquinazoline

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6-Nitro-3H-quinazolin-4-one 4a (18.88 g, 99.40 mmol) was dissolved in phosphoricchloride (31.03 g, 149 mmol). The mixture was warmed up to 160° C., and stirred for 3 hours. The reaction mixture was added to 250 mL of n-hexane while hot, stirred and a lot of the solid was precipitated from the solution, filtered, the filter cake was washed with n-hexane, dried under vacuum to obtain the title compound 4-chloro-6-nitro-quinazoline 4b (18.14 g, yield 87.2%) as a yellow solid.

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