Phosphate → HCID 14999091, compound

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Reaction Steps

Dry diisopropylamine (0.95 ml, 5.3 mmol) was added to dry tetrahydrofuran (3 ml). Further a butyllithium solution (3.6 ml, 5.8 mmol) in hexane was added dropwise at -40° C. The mixture was kept at -10° C. for 1 hour. Then a solution of 3,5-dimethyl-2-(3- pyridyl)thiazolidin-4-one (1 g, 4.8 mmol) in dry tetrahydrofuran (7 ml) was added dropwise at -20 to -10° C. After this reaction mixture had been kept between those temperatures for 1 hour, methyl iodide (0.75 g, 5.3 mmol) dissolved in dry tetrahydrofuran (2 ml) was added at -20 to -10° C. This reaction mixture was heated for 2 hours up to 0° C. and then kept at the same temperature for 2 hours. The resulting mixture, after addition of a phosphate buffer (pH 7.0), was extracted with ethyl acetate. The extract was dried over anhydrous Na2SO4 and filtered. The filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure, and subjected to medium-pressure liquid chromatography (hexane-acetone) and then to recrystallization from a 1:1 ether-hexane mixture, giving 5,5,3-trimethyl-2-(3-pyridyl)thiazolidin-4-one (0.42 g, 39% yield).

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