Water → 4-methyl-1-(3-nitrophenyl)-1H-imidazole

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To a mixture of 112.9 g of m-fluoronitrobenzene and 65.69 g of 4-methylimidazole in 1 liter of dimethylsulfoxide is added 58.51 g of potassium carbonate followed by heating under dry conditions at 110° C. for 39 hours. The reaction mixture is poured into 3.3 liters of water and stored in a refrigerator for 2 days. The mixture is filtered and the cake washed with copious volumes of water followed by suction drying to give 25 g of brown solid. The solid is crystallized from ethyl acetate to give 15.0 g of the desired product as a beige solid, m.p. 119°-120° C. From the combined recrystallization filtrates is obtained 800 mg of 5-methyl-1-(3-nitrophenyl)-1H-imidazole as a beige solid, m.p. 130°-132° C.

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