Water → 3-Bromo-5-phenoxypyridine

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3,5-Dibromopyridine (4.74 g), phenol (1.88 g), anhydrous potassium carbonate (3.04 g), copper bronze (0.1 g) in dry N,N-dimethylformamide (20 ml) were stirred under an atmosphere of nitrogen at 145–150° C. for 4.25 hours then cooled and poured into water. The mixture was extracted with diethyl ether (three times), the extracts were combined, washed with water (three times) then dried over magnesium sulphate and evaporated under reduced pressure to give an oil. The oil was fractionated by chromatography (silica; hexane: diethyl ether; 2:1 by volume) to give the required product, 1.70 g, as a colourless oil.

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