Isopropanol → 5,7-Dimethyl-imidazo[1,2-f]phenanthridine

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3,5-Dimethyl-6-phenanthridinamine (8.6 g, 39 mmol), a 50% solution of acetyl chloride (4.6 g, 58 mmol) in water, sodium bicarbonate (6.5 g, 77.4 mmol) in 258 mL of isopropyl alcohol were heated to reflux for 40 hours. After cooling the crude product was dissolve into methylene chloride and vacuum filtered. The filtrate was concentrated and the crude product was crystallized in methylene chloride and ethyl acetate mixture. The pure product was collected by vacuum filtration to give 5,7-dimethyl-imidazo[1,2-f]phenanthridine) (3.8 g, 40% yield) as determined by NMR.

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