Lithium Hydroxide → 2-(Pyridin-2-yl)-1,3-thiazole-5-carboxylic acid

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2-Pyridin-2-yl-thiazol-5-carboxylic acid methyl ester (0.34 g, 1.55 mmol) was dissolved in a THF/methanol (5 ml/1 ml) mixture, cooled to 0° C. and treated with lithium hydroxide (4.7 ml, 1N aqueous solution). The reaction mixture was allowed to warm-up to ambient temperature, stirred at that temperature for 30 min and the pH value was subsequently adjusted to ˜5. The resulting suspension was treated with dichloromethane (50 ml) and filtered. The precipitate was washed with water and dichloromethane, the filtrate was extracted with dichloromethane. The combined organic phases were dried, evaporated and combined with the precipitate to yield the product as light brown solid (0.3 g, 92%). MS: M=161.1 (M-CO2—H)−

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