Water → HCID 15099359, compound

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Reaction Steps

1 g of 2-phenyl-4-chloro-5-hydroxymethylimidazole, together with 0.7 ml of p-methylbenzyl bromide and 3 g of potassium carbonate, was stirred in 10 ml of dimethylformamide at 30° C. for 2 days. The reaction solution was poured into 100 ml of water, and the precipitate deposited was chromatographed on a column of 30 g of silica gel, followed by eluting with chloroform. The initially eluted fraction was collected, and recrystallization from aqueous methanol yielded 0.5 g of 2-phenyl-4-chloro-5-hydroxymethyl-1-(4-methylbenzyl)imidazole as colorless, needle-formed crystals, m.p. 173°-175° C.

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