Dimethylformamide → 1-Methyl-2,6-dioxo-3-pentyl-7-(2-propen-1-yl)-2,3,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-purine-8-carbaldehyde

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To 1-methyl-3-pentyl-7-(2-propen-1-yl)-3,7-dihydro-1H-purine-2,6-dione (1.05 g, 3.6 mmol) in THF (15 ml) at −78° C. was added LiHMDS (4 ml, 1M in hexane, 4 mmol) over 10 min and the solution stirred for 0.5 h. DMF (0.5 ml) was added and the solution stirred at −78° C. for a further 0.5 h then allowed to warm to ambient temperature with the cooling bath over 2 h. The reaction was quenched with 2N hydrochloric acid (3 ml) and partioned between ethyl acetate and brine. The organics were isolated, dried and concentrated. The crude product was chomatographed over silica (gradient elution dichloromethane to 5:1 dichloromethane/ethyl acetate) to afford the title compound as a white solid (0.35 g, 30%). m/z 305[MH+]

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