Dimethylformamide → 6-Chloro-N-methoxy-N-methylnicotinamide

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Under ice cooling, 6-chloronicotinic acid (5.00 g) was suspended in dichloromethane (150 ml), followed by the addition of a catalytic amount of N,N-dimethylformamide and oxalyl chloride (5.30 ml). The resulting mixture was stirred at room temperature for 23 hours. The residue obtained by concentrating the reaction mixture was dissolved in dichloromethane (100 ml), followed by the addition of N,O-dimethylhydroxylamine hydrochloride (6.18 g) and triethylamine (13.3 ml) under ice cooling. After stirring at room temperature for 6 hours, the reaction mixture was diluted with dichloromethane (150 ml), washed with a saturated aqueous solution of sodium bicarbonate, water and saturated saline and then dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate. The residue obtained by distilling off the solvent under reduced pressure was purified by chromatography on a silica gel column (hexane:ethyl acetate=2:1), whereby the title compound (6.08 g, 96%) was obtained.

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