Phosphorus oxychloride → 5-Bromo-4-chloro-2-methylpyrimidine

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5-Bromo-2-methylpyrimidin-4-ol (5 g, 2.6 mmol) was suspended in phosphorous oxychloride (100 mL). The reaction mixture was heated at 120° C. for 60 minutes. The reaction mixture was cooled to ambient temperature, concentrated in vacuo and azeotroped twice with toluene. The crude residue was diluted with EtOAc (100 mL) and cooled to 0° C. Aqueous sodium bicarbonate (20 mL) was slowly added with stirring. The organic layer was washed once more with sodium bicarbonate (20 mL), dried over MgSO4, filtered and concentrated in vacuo to afford the title compound as a dark oil, which was sufficiently pure to use in the subsequent step without further purification (5.3 g, 98%): LC/MS m/z=207.0 (M+H)+.

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