Carbon Dioxide → N-Methoxy-N,1-dimethyl-1H-1,2,3-triazole-5-carboxamide

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Reaction Steps

A solution of 1-methyl-1H-1,2,3-triazole (12.9 g, 155 mmol) in THF (260 mL) was cooled to −45° C. Maintaining a temperature of <−35° C., n-BuLi (62.1 mL, 2.5 M in hexanes, 155 mmol) was added over 10 minutes. The reaction mixture was stirred for 30 minutes with cooling to −45° C. and then treated with a sub-surface stream of CO2(g) for a period of 2 hours. After flushing the −35° C. slurry with N2(g) for 5 minutes, thionyl chloride (11.8 mL, 163 mmol) was added. The mixture was allowed to warm to room temperature with stirring over 1.25 hours. Then, N,O-dimethylhydroxylamine hydrochloride (18.14 g, 186 mmol) and N,N-diisopropylethylamine (68.3 mL, 396 mmol) were added and the resulting mixture stirred for 15 hours. Aqueous sodium carbonate (500 mL, 10 wt %) was then added, and the layers were mixed and separated. The aqueous layer was washed with dichloromethane (250 mL and then 125 mL), and the combined organic layers were dried over MgSO4, filtered, and concentrated. The residue was taken up in ethyl acetate (225 mL), treated with MgSO4, and filtered through a pad of silica gel (115 g). The silica gel pad was washed with additional ethyl acetate (800 mL). The eluent was concentrated to provide the title compound as a yellow solid.

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