Water → 4-Cyano-2-fluoropyridine

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Cesium fluoride (30 g, 0.22 mmol) was slurried in dry sulfolane (150 mL) and concentrated via vacuum distillation at 0.5 mm Hg. After removal of 20% of the solvent, the suspension was cooled and 2-chloroisonicotinonitrile (15 g, 0.11 mmol) was added, then stirred and heated at 100° C. for 20 h. It was cooled to 25° C., poured into H2O (200 mL) and extracted with Et2O. The Et2O phase was washed with H2O, then brine, dried over Na2SO4, filtered and concentrated in vacuo. The residue was purified by column chromatography over SiO2 with CH2Cl2 to give 2-fluoroisonicotinonitrile (12.0 g) as a low-melting colorless solid: EIMS m/z: 122 ([M]+); 1H NMR (CDCl3): δ 8.45 (dd, 1H), 7.47 (dd, 1H), 7.24 (m, 1H).

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