N,N-Dimethylaniline → N-(4-Chloro-7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-2-yl)-2,2-dimethylpropionamide

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A mixture of 2,2-dimethyl-N-(4-oxo-4,7-dihydro-3H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-2-yl)-propionamide (210 g, 0.90 mol), POCl3 (828 g, 5.40 mol, 503 mL, 6.0 eq), benzyltriethylammonium chloride (411 g, 1.80 mol), N,N-dimethylaniline (220 g, 231 mL, 1.80 mol), and acetonitrile (2.0 L) was heated to reflux for 40-60 min, monitoring with HPLC. The solvent was evaporated on a rotary evaporator, and the residue was carefully (caution: exothermic and corrosive) and slowly added to ice water (16 L). The pH was adjusted to 7 with solid NaOH, and the resulting precipitate was collected by filtration. Drying afforded the title compound (159 g, 70% yield 70%, HPLC purity 100%). tR: 5.37 min. 1H-NMR (DMSO-d6) δ 12.35 (br. s, 1H), 10.06 (br. S, 1H), 7.54 (q, 1H), 6.52 (q, 1H), 1.25 (s, 9H).

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