Methanol → (2,6-Dichloropyridin-3-yl)methanol

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Lithium aluminum hydride (1.78 g) was suspended in dry tetrahydrofuran (10 ml), and 2,6-dichloronicotinic acid was added under ice-cooling at an inside temperature of not more than 10° C. The mixture was stirred under ice-cooling for 1 hr and 28% aqueous amonia was added dropwise to the reaction mixture until foams disappeared. Methanol was added and the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 3 hr, and filtered through celite. The mother liquor was concentrated and the residue was applied to flash silica gel column chromatography (silica gel, 200 ml) and eluted with chloroform:ethyl acetate=8:1 to give 2,6-dichloro-3-hydroxymethylpyridine as colorless crystals (2.89 g).

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