Sodium Chloride → [4-(2-Hydroxymethylmorpholin-4-yl)-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyrimidin-2-yl]acetic acid ethyl ester

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Under argon, in a 500 ml round-bottomed flask equipped with a thermometer and a condenser, 10 g of (4-chloro-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyrimidin-2-yl)acetic acid ethyl ester (example 25b, step 5b) and 9.6 g of morpholin-2-yl-methanol hydrochloride obtained previously are successively placed in 200 ml of DMSO and 16.1 ml of triethylamine. The reaction medium is heated for 22 h at 85° C. After returning to ambient temperature (20° C.), the reaction medium is poured into a saturated NaCl solution, and the mixture is extracted with 8×250 ml of ethyl acetate. The organic extracts are combined, dried over magnesium sulfate, filtered, and evaporated under reduced pressure. A solid is obtained which is slurried in diisopropyl ether containing 10% of methylene chloride. The solid is filtered off, and rinsed twice and then once with pentane. [4-(2-Hydroxymethylmorpholin-4-yl)-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyrimidin-2-yl]acetic acid ethyl ester is isolated (1.9 g; yield=14%) in the form of a beige solid.

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