Methanol → Methyl Isoquinoline-4-carboxylate

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To a stirred solution of isoquinolin-4-carboxylic acid (Intermediate-14) (1.2 g, 6.9 mmol) in CH2Cl2 (10 mL) was added, EDCI (1.3 g, 8.3 mmol), HOBt (1.12 g, 8.3 mmol), DMAP (84 mg, 0.7 mmol) and the mixture was stirred at RT for 20 min. To this, MeOH (0.33 g, 10.4 mmol) was added and the reaction mixture was further stirred at RT for overnight. It was diluted with CH2Cl2 (100 mL) and washed with water. The organic layer was separated, dried over Na2SO4, filtered and concentrated to give crude product that was purified by flash column chromatography (10% EtOAc:Hexanes) to give the desired product (700 mg, 54%) as pale yellow solid.

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