Abstract A practical approach to the synthesis of 4-ethynylpyrimidines by the condensation of arylamidines with 2-aryl-1-ethoxy-5-(trimethylsilyl) pent-1-en-4-yn-3-ones has been developed. As these latter ketones are easily accessible from bis (trimethylsilyl) acetylene and arylacetyl chlorides, the regioselective condensation reported herein provides a facile access to both TMS-protected and unprotected 4-ethynylpyrimidines in yields of up to 85%.
[Moss, Robert A.; Terpinski, Jacek; Cox, D. Phillip; Denneey, Dorothy Z.; Krogh-Jespersen, Karsten Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1985 , vol. 107, # 9 p. 2743 - 2748]
[Moss, Robert A.; Terpinski, Jacek; Cox, D. Phillip; Denneey, Dorothy Z.; Krogh-Jespersen, Karsten Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1985 , vol. 107, # 9 p. 2743 - 2748]