Ammonium Hydroxide → 4,6-Dichloronicotinamide

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Oxalyl chloride (7.70 mL, 88.3 mmol) was added over 1 hour to a suspension of 4,6-dichloronicotinic acid (8.47 g, 44.1 mmol) in dimethylformamide (200 mL) at room temperature. The reaction mixture was stirred for an additional 3 hours at room temperature then concentrated in vacuo. The residue was dissolved in CH2Cl2 (200 mL) followed by the dropwise addition of NH4OH (8.3 mL, 130 mmol) over 30 minutes [Note: reaction is exothermic upon addition of NH4OH and care was taken to control the rate of addition so that the reaction temperature did not exceed 25° C.]. The reaction mixture was stirred for an additional 1 hour at room temperature then diluted with water (600 mL) and extracted with EtOAc (4×600 mL). The organic extracts were combined, dried over Na2SO4, filtered and concentrated to give the title compound as a light brown solid (8.05 g, 95% yield). This material was carried forward without further purification.

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