Potassium Carbonate → 4-(4-(Trifluoromethyl)phenyl)pyrimidin-2(1H)-one

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A suspension of 4-chloro-2-methoxypyrimidine (500 mg, 3.47 mmol), 4-(trifluoromethyl)phenylboronic acid (788 mg, 4.17 mmol), PdCl2(dppf) (283 mg, 0.347 mmol) and K2CO3 (958 mg, 6.94 mmol) in DMSO (10 mL) was degassed under reduced pressure for 45 min. The suspension was put under N2 and stirred at 95° C. for 20 h. The suspension was cooled, H2O was added and the suspension was filtered to afford a light colored solid. Flash chromatography on silica gel (hexanes/(1:1 EtOAc/hexanes), 100:0 to 0:100) afforded a white solid. The white solid was diluted with concentrated HCl solution (10 mL) and stirred at reflux for 4 h. The reaction was cooled, and the solution was neutralized with saturated NaHCO3 solution. The resulting suspension was filtered to afford 185 mg (22%) of the title compound as a white solid: ESI MS m/z 241 [M+H]+.

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