Sodium Acetate → tert-Butyl 6-nitro-3',6'-dihydro-[3,4'-bipyridine]-1'(2'H)-carboxylate

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A mixture of 5-bromo-2-nitropyridine (2.0 g, 9.7 mmol), tert-butyl 4-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)-5,6-dihydropyridine-1(2H)-carboxylate (3.0 g, 9.7 mmol), Pd(dppf)Cl2 (792 mg, 0.97 mmol), K3PO4.3H2O (5.2 g, 19.4 mmol), and sodium acetate (1.59 g, 19.4 mmol) in acetonitrile (100 mL) and water (5 mL) was evacuated and then refilled with N2. The reaction mixture was heated at 80° C. for 6 h. It was then cooled to room temperature and filtered. The filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure and the resulting residue was purified by silica-gel column chromatography eluting with 1:5 ethyl acetate/petroleum ether to afford 200a as a yellow solid (2.2 g, 74%).

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