Hydrochloric Acid → Chloro-N,N-dimethylformiminium chloride

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Vilsmeier reagent was prepared from phosphorus oxychloride (0.76 g) and N,N-dimethylformamide (0.36 g) in ethyl acetate (1.44 ml) in a usual manner. 2-t-Butoxycarbonylmethoxyimino-2-(4-thiazolyl)acetic acid (syn isomer) (1.2 g) was added to the stirred suspension of Vilsmeier reagent in ethyl acetate (200 ml) under ice-cooling and the mixture was stirred for 20 minutes at the same temperature to prepare an activated acid solution. Trimethylsilylacetamide (3.5 g) was added to the stirred suspension of 7-amino-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid (0.76 g) in tetrahydrofuran (15 ml) and the mixture was stirred for 20 minutes at 35° to 40° C. To the solution was added the above activated acid solution at -10° C. and the mixture was stirred for 30 minutes at the same temperature. Water was added to the reaction mixture and the separated organic layer was added to water and the mixture was adjusted to pH 7.5 with saturated aqueous solution of potassium carbonate. The separated aqueous layer was adjusted to pH 2.0 with 10% hydrochloric acid and extracted with ethyl acetate. The extracted layer was washed with saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride, dried over magnesium sulfate and evaporated to give 7-[2-t-butoxycarbonylmethoxyimino2-(4-thiazolyl)acetamido]-3-cephem-4-carboxylic acid (syn isomer) (1.4 g).

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