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Azaindoline 12: To an oven-dried three-necked flask
containing 4,6-dichloro-2-(thiomethyl)pyrimidine (1; 390
mg, 2.0 mmol) in anhyd THF (7.5 mL) was added
TMPMgClLiCl (1 M in THF, 2.4 mL, 2.4 mmol) at r.t. After
stirring for 30 min, tert-butyl (4S)-4-methyl-1,2,3-
oxathiazolidine-3-carboxylate 2,2-dioxide (5; 498 mg, 2.10
mmol) was added and the reaction was stirred for a further 1
h at r.t. 1 N Citric acid (7.5 mL) and EtOAc (7.5 mL) were
added, and the reaction was stirred vigorously for 5 min
before separation of the layers. The organic layer was
concentrated, then the residue was stirred in TFA (5 mL)
for 15 min before again being concentrated. [Note:
Alternatively, TFA (7.5 mL) and H2O (1 mL) can be added
directly to the reaction mixture to cleave the sulfamic acid
intermediate and N-Boc group in one process.] The residue
was dissolved in MeCN (20 mL) and Et3N (1.12 mL, 8.0
mmol) was added. The reaction was warmed to 80 °C for 30
min to effect cyclisation. The volatiles were removed under
vacuum and the residue was purified by silica gel chroma-
tography [heptane–EtOAc, 95:5 → 80:20] to give (R)-4-
chloro-6-methyl-2-(methylthio)-6,7-dihydro-5H-
pyrollo[2,3-d]pyrimidine (12) as a colourless solid (354.5
mg, 82%); mp 192–193 °C. IR: 3350 (w), 2985 (m), 1180
(s), 1045 (s), 885 (m) cm–1. 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3):
δ = 6.83 (s, 1 H, NH), 4.16 (m, 1 H, CHMe), 3.19 (dd, 1 H,
J = 9.5, 16.8 Hz, CHaHb), 2.59 (dd, 1 H, J = 5.8, 16.8 Hz,
CHaHb), 2.49 (s, 3 H, SMe), 1.37 (d, 3 H, J = 6.3 Hz, Me).
13C NMR (100 MHz, CDCl3): δ = 170.76, 167.86, 151.43,
112.20, 51.86, 33.17, 23.11, 14.14. MS (EI): m/z = 216 (100)
[M + H]+. HRMS (EI): m/z [M + H]+ calcd for C8H11N3ClS:
216.03567; found: 216.03557
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