Benzyl Bromide → 7-benzyl-3,7-dihydro-6h-purin-6-one

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18.23 g of inosine was dissolved in 90 ml of dimethyl sulfoxide, and 16 ml of benzyl bromide was added thereto. The mixture was stirred at room temperature overnight. The reaction solution was poured into 3 L of ethyl acetate. The resulting supernatant was removed and the precipitated oil was dissolved in 10% hydrochloric acid (135 ml). The solution was heated at 70° C. with stirring for 4 hours. The solution was cooled to room temperature, and then neutralized to pH 7 using a 5N aqueous sodium hydroxide solution. The precipitated solid was collected by filtration, and dried to give 12.748 g of the title compound.

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