Water → N-[2-(3,5-dichloropyridin-2-yl)-1-methyl-2-oxoethyl)phthalimide

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To 5.00 g of 2-bromo-1-(3,5-dichloropyridin-2-yl)-1-propanone in 20 ml of N,N-dimethylformamide, 3.27 g of potassium phthalimide was added, and the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 2 hours. After completion of the reaction, the reaction mixture was mixed with 50 ml of water and extracted with ethyl acetate (50 ml×2), and the resulting organic layers were combined, washed with water (30 ml×1) and dried over saturated aqueous sodium chloride and then anhydrous sodium sulfate, and the solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure to obtain 2.02 g of the desired crude product as brown crystals. The crystals were used in the next step without further purification.

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