Cesium carbonate → 1-(3-fluoro-4-(morpholinomethyl)phenyl)-5-methylpyridin-2(1H)-one

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A mixture of CuI (0.19 g, 1 mmol), Cs2CO3 (6.85 g, 20 mmol) and ethyl 2-oxocyclohexanecarboxylate (0.34 g, 2 mmol) in DMSO (10 mL) was stirred at rt for 30 min under N2. Then to the reaction mixture was added a solution of 5-methylpyridone (1.09 g, 10 mmol) and 4-(2-fluoro-4-iodobenzyl) morpholine (3.21 g, 10 mmol) in DMSO (12 mL) via syringe. The reaction mixture was heated at 100° C. overnight, cooled to rt and filtered. The filtrate diluted with H2O (50 mL) was extracted with CH2Cl2 (50 mL×3). The combined organic phases were concentrated in vacuo. The residue was purified by a silica gel column chromatography (PE/EtOAc (V/V)=10:1) to give the title compound as a white solid (0.70 g, 23%). The compound was characterized by the following spectroscopic data:

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