Methyl iodide → diethyl 4-(3-methyl-4(3H)-quinazolinon-2-yl)benzylphosphonate

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A 5.9 g quantity of diethyl 4-(4-hydroxyquinazolin-2-yl)benzylphosphonate, 1.8 g of potassium tert-butoxide and 2.3 g of methyl iodide were suspended in 100 ml of anhydrous methanol and stirred with heating at 40° C. for 16 hours. After completion of the reaction, the solvent was distilled off under reduced pressure. The residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography (eluent: methylene chloride: methanol=100:1) and the crude crystals thus obtained were recrystallized from methylene chloride-n-hexane to provide 3.0 g of the title compound as colorless crystals.

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