Nitric Acid → N,N-Diethyl-6-methyl-5-nitro-2-pyridinamine

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To a 1900 ml of concentrated sulfuric acid 630 g of 6-diethylamino-2-picoline were dropwise added while cooling with ice water. A 70% nitric acid solution of 347 g were dropwise added at not more than 5° C. over about 2 hours to the resulting mixture and stirred at 5° C. for additional one hour. The reation mixture was added to 4 kg of ice, neutralized with a sodium hydroxide solution, and extracted two times with ethyl acetate. The extract solution was washed two times with water, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, concentrated and dried. Thus, 775 g of 6-diethylamino-3-nitro-2-picoline were obtained.

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