Water → 4-Cyanomethyl-1-(2-propyl)imidazole

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450 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, 0.94 ml of 2-propyl iodide was added to the resulting solution and stirred at room temperature for 2 hours. To the reaction solution was added 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 chloroform-methanol (30:1) to obtain 500 mg of 4-cyanomethyl-1-(2-propyl)imidazole.

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