Hydrochloric Acid → 1-(6-Chloropyrimidin-4-yl)ethan-1-one

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4-Chloro-6-[1-(ethyloxy)ethenyl]pyrimidine (Intermediate 17, 3.54 g, 19.17 mmol) was dissolved in acetone (177 mL), treated with 2M aqueous hydrochloric acid solution (28.8 mL, 57.5 mmol) and the resulting mixture was stirred at room temperature for 18 hours. The solvent was removed under reduced pressure. The residue was neutralised with aqueous saturated sodium bicarbonate solution and extracted with ethyl acetate (×2). The ethyl acetate layers were combined, dried under magnesium sulfate and evaporated under reduced pressure to give the title compound as a white solid (2.30 g);

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