Trifluoromethanesulfonic anhydride → Methyl 2-phenyl-6-{[(trifluoromethyl)sulfonyl]oxy}pyridine-4-carboxylate

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With cooling with ice, trifluoromethanesulfonic acid anhydride (3.7 mL) was added to a pyridine (80 mL) solution of methyl 2-oxo-6-phenyl-1,2-dihydropyridine-4-carboxylate (2.8 g), and this was stirred for 10 minutes with cooling with ice, and then at room temperature for 2 hours. With further cooling with ice, trifluoromethanesulfonic acid anhydride (1 mL) was added to it, stirred at that temperature for 5 minutes and then overnight at room temperature. The reaction liquid was concentrated under reduced pressure, then ethyl acetate was added thereto, and the formed precipitate was taken away through filtration. Water was added to the filtrate, extracted with ethyl acetate, and the organic layer was washed with water and saturated saline water. This was dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, filtered, concentrated under reduced pressure, and the residue was purified through silica gel column chromatography (hexane/ethyl acetate) to obtain the title compound as a yellow powder.

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