Benzyl chloroformate → HCID 178522340, compound

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Over a period of about 1 h, benzyloxycarbonyl chloride (52 mL, 0.36 mol) was added dropwise to a suspension of cytosine (8, 20 g, 0.18 mol) in dry pyridine (1000 mL) at 0° C. under nitrogen in oven-dried equipment. The solution then was stirred overnight, after which the pyridine suspension was evaporated to dryness, in vacuo. Water (200 mL) and 4 N hydrochloric acid were added to reach pH ˜1. The resulting white precipitate was filtered off, washed with water and partially dried by air suction. The moist precipitate was refluxed with absolute ethanol (500 mL) for 10 minutes, cooled to 0° C., filtered, washed thoroughly with ether, and dried, in vacuo. Yield 24.7 g (54%). M.p.>250° C. Anal. for C12H11N3O3. Found(calc.); C: 58.59(58.77); H: 4.55(4.52); N: 17.17(17.13). No NMR spectra were recorded since it was not possible to get the product dissolved.

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