Treatment of 2-fluorophenylglycine (I) with Ac2O and pyridine at 150 C produced 1-(2-fluorophenyl)-1-acetamido-2-propanone (II). This was subsequently condensed with malononitrile yielding the title pyrrole derivative.
The partial hydrolysis of malonodinitrile (I) with HCl in ethanol gives 2-cyanoacetamide (II), which is treated with ammonia in ethanol to yield 3,3-diaminopropenenitrile (III). Finally, this compound is cyclized with 2-bromo-1-(2-fluorophenyl)-1-propanone (IV) by means of TEA in ethanol.