Formamide → 2(1H)-Quinazolinone, 6,7-dimethoxy-

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In an example, A1 was prepared essentially as described in Barker, AJ. European Patent Application 0 566 226 A1, Oct. 20, 1993; and Gazit et al., Bioorg. Med. Chem. 4:1203-1207, 1996. Briefly, methyl 2-amino-4,5-dimethoxybenzoate was treated with formamide at 180° C. The reaction was cooled and diluted with water. The precipitate was collected by filtration, washed with water and dried to give 6,7-dimethoxyquinazolone, which was treated with thionyl chloride and dimethylformamide at reflux, concentrated, and stirred with sodium bicarbonate solution. The resulting solid was collected and crystallized from hexane to give 4-chloro-6,7-dimethoxyquinazoline, which was refluxed with 3-bromoaniline in ethanol, cooled, treated with 1 normal NaOH and the resulting solid collected by filtration to yield 4-(3-bromophenylamino)-6,7-dimethoxyquinazoline (A1).

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