Acetic Acid → HCID 178512634, compound

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Biguanide (1.01 g.) was stirred in dry dimethylformamide (15 ml.) and N-(6-bromo-5-oxohexyl)phthalimide (1.5 g.) added. The mixture was stirred for 3 hours, acetic acid (5 ml.) was then added and the total reaction mixture evaporated to dryness. The residue was dissolved in water (10 ml.) and extracted with ethyl acetate (5×20 ml.). The combined ethyl acetate extracts were evaporated to give a brown foam which was purified by column chromatography on silica gel using chloroform/methanol/ammonia (s.g. 0.880) 80:20:0.5 v/v/v. The appropriate fractions were evaporated to give 2-guanidino-4-(4-phthalimidobutyl)imidazole as a brown foam (0.3 g.).

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