Dimethylformamide → HCID 21958893, compound

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Dimethylformamide (0.1 ml) was added dropwise to a solution of 6-methoxy-7-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-3,4-dihydroquinazolin-4-one (15.8 g, 57.7 mmol) in thionyl chloride (200 ml) and the reaction was heated at reflux for 6 hours. The reaction was cooled, excess thionyl chloride was removed in vacuo and the residue was azeotroped with toluene (2×50 ml) to remove the last of the thionyl chloride. The residue was taken up in dichloromethane (550 ml), the solution was washed with saturated aqueous sodium hydrogen carbonate solution (2×250 ml) and the organic phase was dried over magnesium sulphate. Solvent evaporation in vacuo yielded 4-chloro-6-methoxy-7-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)quinazoline (16.3 g, 97% yield) as a cream solid:

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