Potassium Cyanide → 2-Iodo-4-nitrobenzonitrile

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Compound 489A (10.0 g, 37.9 mmol) was dissolved in a mixture of 20 mL 12 N HCl/40 mL water and then cooled to 0° C. To this mixture was slowly added a solution of sodium nitrite (5.23 g, 75.8 mmol) in 10 mL water while maintaining the reaction temperature at 0° C. The reaction was stirred for 1 h at 0° C. and then slowly added to a mechanically stirred solution of freshly prepared cuprous cyanide (3.0 g, 33 mmol, prepared as described in Vogel's Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry, 5th edition, pg. 429) and potassium cyanide (6.30 g, 96.7 mmol) in water (50 mL) at 50° C. The reaction was stirred for 1 h at 50° C., cooled to 25° C. and extracted with methylene chloride (2×200 mL). The organic portion was dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and concentrated in vacuo. The resulting residue was purified by chromatography on silica gel eluting with 4:1 hexane:ethyl acetate to yield 4.6 g (44%) of compound 489B as an orange solid. HPLC: 98% at 2.647 min (retention time) (YMC S5 ODS column, 4.6×50 mm, eluting with 10-90% aqueous methanol over 4 min containing 0.2% phosphoric acid, 4 mL/min, monitoring at 220 nm).

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