Acetyl chloride → 1-[5-(2,4-Diamino-pyrimidin-5-yloxy)-4-isopropyl-2-methoxy-phenyl]-ethanone

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5-(2-isopropyl-4-methoxy-phenoxy)-pyrimidine-2,4-diamine in anhydrous dichloroethane (20 mL) was added to trifluoroacetic acid (0.06 mL, 0.77 mmol), acetyl chloride (0.31 mL, 4.37 mmol), and aluminum trichloride (583 mg, 4.37 mmol). After stirring for 22 hours at room temperature, water (1.2 mL) was added to the reaction at 0° C. The mixture was dried using anhydrous sodium sulfate and concentrated in vacuo. Aqueous sodium hydroxide (0.2 M, 10 mL) was added to the residue and the mixture was heated at 100° C. for 1 hour. After cooling, the reaction was extracted with dichloromethane. The dichloromethane layer was dried using anhydrous magnesium sulfate, concentrated, and purified with silica gel column chromatography eluting with 96/4/0.1 dichloromethane/methanol/ammonium hydroxide to yield 1-[5-(2,4-diamino-pyrimidin-5-yloxy)-4-isopropyl-2-methoxy-phenyl]-ethanone (72 mg, 31%) as off-white solid, MS (M+H)=317. Also recovered was 1-[5-(2,4-diamino-pyrimidin-5-yloxy)-2-hydroxy-4-isopropyl-phenyl]-ethanone (43 mg, 20%) as pale yellow solid, MS (M+H)=303.

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