Sodium hydride → 5-Hydroxy-7-methoxy-3-pivaloyloxymethyl-quinazolin-4-one

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Sodium hydride (60 mg, 1.49 mmol) was added portionwise over 5 minutes to 7-methoxyquinazoline-4,5-diol (260 mg, 1.35 mmol) in dimethylformamide (2 ml) at 0° C. Chloromethyl pivalate (200 μl, 1.36 mmol) was added dropwise over 15 minutes to give a clear orange solution. The reaction mixture was allowed to warm to ambient temperature and stirred for a further 18 hours. Incomplete reaction was seen by tlc, therefore the reaction was cooled to 0° C. and sodium hydride (10 mg, 0.25 mmol) was added followed by chloromethyl pivalate (26 μl, 6.18 mmol). The reaction was complete after stirring for 1 hour at ambient temperature. The reaction mixture was concentrated in vacuo and purified by chromatography on silica gel, eluting with 2-10% methanol in dichloromethane, to yield (5-hydroxy-7-methoxy-4-oxoquinazolin-3(4H)-yl)methyl pivalate (170 mg, 41% yield) as a cream solid:

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