Water → 2-Chloro-5-iodo-4-methoxypyrimidine

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Reaction Steps

Methanolic sodium ethanolate solution (88.00 mL, 15.31 mmol—from 0.7 g sodium and 100 ml dry methanol) is added dropwise with stirring at −5 to 0° C. to a solution of 5-iodo-2,4-dichloropyrimidine (4.00 g, 14.55 mmol) in dry methanol (50 mL). The reaction solution is warmed to RT overnight, during which the crude product precipitates. The product is isolated by filtration and then stirred thoroughly with water (ca 50 mL) for 30 mins, recrystallised from methanol and dried over phosphorus pentoxide in the desiccator under vacuum: 2.18 g (8.06 mmol, 55.39%) of a white product.

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