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organic compounds
Alkylation of 6-chloropurine using ethyl bromoacetate gives a mixture of monoalkyl regioisomers from which the title compound, C9H9ClN4O2, (I), was isolated in crystalline form. In both independent molecules, the side chain adopts an extended conformation; its carboxymethyl-group plane intersects the planar heterocycle at angles of 60.1 (1) and 65.8 (1)°, respectively.