Potassium Carbonate → HCID 178418884, compound

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4-Ethynyl-2-methyl-1-(2-trimethylsilanyl-ethoxymethyl)-1H-imidazole and 5-ethynyl-2-methyl-1-(2-trimethylsilanyl-ethoxymethyl)-1H-imidazole(1-Diazo-2-oxo-propyl)-phosphonic acid dimethyl ester (10.4 g, 54 mmol) was dissolved in 150 mL methanol. Potassium carbonate (12.6 g, 90 mmol) was added. A solution of crude 2-methyl-1-(2-trimethylsilanyl-ethoxymethyl)-1H-imidazole-4-carbaldehyde and 2-methyl-3-(2-trimethylsilanyl-ethoxymethyl)-3H-imidazole-4-carbaldehyde (45 mmol) in 150 mmol methanol was added dropwise at RT. The reaction mixture was stirred at RT overnight. The solvent was evaporated. The residue was taken up in 150 mL water and extracted three times with ethyl acetate (150 mL each). The combined organic extracts were dried with sodium sulfate, filtered and evaporated. The crude product was purified by column chromatography on silica gel (cyclohexane/ethyl acetate 1:1) and the desired compound was obtained as a mixture of 2 isomers (8.36 g, 78%), MS: m/e=237.0 (M+H+).

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