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gradually dissolved, and a clear lightyellow soln. was ob ta ined. TLC (CHCl
consumption of 2 (R 0.86) and the formation of a major product (R
neutralized with conc. aq. HCl to pH 7. The white precipitate was filtered, washed with H
3
/MeOH, 25% aq. NH
3
) showed the
f
f
0.22). The mixture was cooled to 08 and
O (2 Â 100 ml),
O (2 Â 100 ml) to give 7.1 g (83%) of 3 as white solid ). H-NMR (300 MHz,
); 7.39 (br., 1 H, NH ); 7.51 (br., 1 H, NH
)DMSO, 608): 40.48; 156.00; 161.61; 165.06; 168.85. ESI-
2
8
1
MeOH (2 Â 100 ml), and Et
2
(
D
6
)DMSO): 4.05 (d, J 6.0, CH
2
2
2
); 8.10 (s, CHO); 8.36 (t, J 5.7,
1
3
NHCHO); 11.54 (br., NH). C-NMR (75 MHz, (D
6
MS(pos.): 142.3 (48, [M À CO H] ), 170.2 (36, [M H] ), 339.2 (100, [2 M H] ), 361.1 (38, [2 M Na] ),
5
30.0 (34, [3 M Na] ), 698.9 (14, [4 M Na] ), 867.9 (5, [5 M Na] ).
-Amino-6-oxo-5,8-diaza-7,9-dicarbapurine (4). This compound was prepared following a protocol
described by Kim et al. [18]. Compound 3 (4.23 g, 25 mmol) was dissolved in 40 ml of 98% H SO , and the
resulting light brown soln. was stirred at 1008 for 5 h. After cooling to r.t., the acid soln. was carefully poured into
00 ml of Et O with rapid stirring. The Et O was decanted and fresh Et O was added; this sequence was
repeated twice. The precipitated salt was suspended in 100 ml of H O, and the soln. was made basic (pH 9) by
adding 25% aq. NH . To the clear light brown soln. thus obtained, AcOH was added dropwise until pH 6.5. The
2
2
4
5
2
2
2
2
3
light brown precipitate formed was filtered, washed with 50 ml of cold H
2
O, and dried under h.v. (P
2
O
5
) to give
9
À4
3
.21 g (85%) of 4 as lightbrown solid ). R
f
(CH
2
Cl
2
/MeOH, 4 :1) 0.33. UV (c 2.50 Â 10 m in pH 7, 0.1m
1
phosphate buffer): 220, (10200), 261 (7300). H-NMR (300 MHz, (D
0
C(7); 137.79; 145.08; 149.45. ESI-MS (neg.): 150.0 (100, [M À H] ), 301.0 (32, [2 M À H] ), 452.0 (4, [3 M À
6
)DMSO): 6.46 (s, NH
2
); 6.52 (d, J
1
3
.9, HÀC(9)); 7.93 (d, J 0.9, HÀC(7)); 11.17 (br., NH). C-NMR (75 MHz, (D
6
)DMSO): 111.66 C(9); 125.37
À
À
À
H] ).
A sample of 1.80 g (11.9 mmol) of 4 obtained in an analogous experiment was crystallized by dissolving the
sample in 150 ml of boiling H
X-Ray Analysis of 4. Unit-cell determination and intensity-data collection were performed on a Bruker
AXS three-circle goniometer with a SMART 6000 CCD and graphite-monochromatized CuK radiation (l
.54178 ä) from a sealed tube generator10). A semi-empirical absorption correction was applied, based on the
2
O and collecting 1.18 g (66%) of colorless crystals at ca. 08. M.p. > 1508.
a
1
intensities of symmetry-related reflections measured at different angular settings (Tmin 0.8093, Tmax 0.9468)
2
[
19]. The structure was solved by direct methods and refined by full-matrix least-squares on F [20]. Compound
4
2
crystallizes with two independent molecules and three molecules of H O in the asymmetric unit in the
centrosymmetric space group P-1. Non-H-atoms were refined with anisotropic displacement parameters, H-
atoms at C-atoms were calculated in idealized positions and refined using a riding model. All H-atoms at N- and
O-atoms were located in DF maps and refined isotropically with suitable SIMU and SADI restraints. For both
independent molecules, two tautomeric forms are present in the crystal lattice, the NH(1) tautomer and the
NH(3) tautomer, with a 0.5 :0.5 distribution. Therefore, the multiplicity of H(2), H(9), H(22), H(29), H(20),
and H(21) is 0.5. For not fully occupied H-atoms the displacement parameter was set to be Uiso(H) 1.2 Uiso(N/
O).
3
Crystal Data of 4. Colorless rod from H
2
O, size 0.20 ¥ 0.05 ¥ 0.05 mm , C
5
H
8
N
5
O
2.5 (C
5
H
5
N
5
O ¥ 1.5 H
2
O),
M
r
178.16 (151.14 1.5 ¥ 18.01), triclinic, space group P-1 (No. 2) with a 3.672(2), b 9.475(3), c
0
3
À3
2
1.963(6) ä, a 98.296(9), b 92.669(9), g 94.987(9) , V 753.2(5) ä , Z 4, D
c
1.570 g ¥ cm , m
À1
0
0
1.105 mm , 15793 reflections measured (w-scans), 2754 independent( Rint 0.0376), 2.04 < q < 69.14 , T
1
00 K, 280 parameters, 41 restraints, R
1
0.0379, wR
2
0.0850 for 2327 reflections with I > 2s(I), R
1
0.0477,
À3
wR
2
0.0901 for all 2754 data, GoF 1.072, restrained GoF 1.065, res. el. dens. 0.19/ À 0.24 e ¥ ä
.
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8)
9)
Compound 3 is soluble in DMSO, and insoluble in CH
Compound 4 can be dissolved in DMF, DMSO, hotH O and hotMeOH. Itis notsoluble in e th er, CH
It is thermally stable for 10 h at 1908, undergoing slow sublimation.
2 2 2
Cl , MeOH, and H O.
2
2 2
Cl .
10)
CCDC-267004 contains the supplementary crystallographic data for this paper (excluding structure
factors). These data can be obtained free of charge via http://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/data_request/cif (or
from the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, 12 Union Road, Cambridge CB21EZ, UK; fax: 44-
(0)1223-336033; e-mail: deposit@ccdc.cam.ac.uk).