Water → Flurtamone

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In this example, a mixture containing 0.5 g of 2-phenyl-3-oxo-4-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-5-amino-2,3-dihydrofuran ("dihydrofuran starting material") and 25 ml of aqueous 40 wt. % methylamine in 10 ml of methanol was refluxed for 18 hours. The mixture was analyzed by thin-layer chromatography for the dihydrofuran starting material. Another 10 ml of aqueous 40 wt. % methylamine was added and the mixture refluxed for about four hours. The mixture was cooled, poured into 100 ml of water and extracted several times with ethyl ether. The organic extracts were dried over magnesium sulfate, concentrated in vacuo and chromatographed using 3% tetrahydrofuran/chloroform as eluent to yield 0.36 g of the title compound.

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