Guanidine Hydrochloride → Methyl 2-aminopyrimidine-4-carboxylate

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Triethylamine (29 mL, 210 mmol) was added to a suspension of methyl 4-butoxy-2-oxo-3-butenate (37 g, 200 mmol, JP-A-2003-89690) and guanidine hydrochloride (23 g, 240 mmol) in propionitrile (50 mL), and the mixture was stirred for 4 hours at 100° C. The reaction mixture was concentrated under reduced pressure, and the residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography to give 18 g as the mixture of the title Reference Compound and the butyl ester form of the title Reference compound as a gray-white solid (Yield: 60%).

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