Sodium Hydroxide → 2-Amino-3-chloro-7-ethyl-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-5H-pyrazino[2,3-d]azepine hydrochloride

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6 gm (31.3 mmols) of 2-amino-7-ethyl-6,7,8,9-tetrahydro-5H-pyrazino[2,3-d]azepine were dissolved in 100 ml of glacial acetic acid and, while cooling the solution with ice, chlorine was introduced until the thin-layer chromatogram showed that no more starting material was present. Thereafter, the reaction mixture was made alkaline with 2 N sodium hydroxide and was then extracted with chloroform. The chloroform extract solution was evaporated, and the residue was column-chromatographically purified on silicagel with ethyl acetate/methanol/ethanolic ammonia (4:1:0.5) as the mobile phase. The hydrochloride was precipitated from ethanol with ethanolic hydrochloric acid.

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