Water → HCID 54476889, compound

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Reaction Steps

373 mg of sodium hydride (60%) was added to 5 ml of dimethylformamide, and a solution of 1.0 g of 4-cyanomethylimidazole in 10 ml of dimethylformamide was added dropwise to the resulting suspension. After 1 hour of stirring at room temperature, to the solution was added 1.9 ml of (2-chloromethoxyethyl)trimethylsilane and stirred at room temperature for 2 hours. The reaction solution was mixed with water and chloroform, and the resulting organic layer was collected and dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, followed by evaporation of the solvent. The residue was subjected to silica gel column chromatography eluted with hexane-ethyl acetate (1:1) to obtain 1.128 g of 4-cyanomethyl-1-trimethylsilylethoxymethylimidazole and 0.362 g of 5-cyanomethyl-1-trimethylsilylethoxymethylimidazole.

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