“…The second step in the synthesis of the targeted 5-substituted 2-amino-4,6-dichloropyrimidines B2-B11 (Scheme 1) consists of the transformation of the 4,6-dihydroxypyrimidine moiety into the 4,6-dichloropyrimidine residue. For such reactions, chlorides of mineral acids such as POCl 3 , PCl 5 , SOCl 2 , or COCl 2 with diverse additives like DMF, pyridine, 2-methylpyridine, diphenylamine, or triethylamine are generally used (Altenbach et al, 2008;Jang et al, 2011). Nevertheless, these classical procedures turned out to be unsuitable for the preparation of the desired 5-substituted 2-amino-4,6-dichloropyrimidines B2-B11, owing to their complicated isolations and very low isolated yields (max.…”