Acetamidine monohydrochloride → 2-methyl-5-phenyl-3H-thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-one

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A stirred mixture of 2-amino-4-phenylthiophene-3-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (350.43 g, 1.54 mol), acetamidine hydrochloride (725.13 g, 7.676 mol) and ethanol (1500 ml) was heated under reflux for 18 hours then allowed to cool to ambient temperature. The resulting solid was collected by filtration, washed with a little cold ethanol, then crystallised from ethanol to give 2-Methyl-5-phenyl-3H-thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-one as a yellow solid which was used without further purification.

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