Ethylene Glycol → HCID 86672567, compound

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5-Bromo-6-chloro-nicotinoyl chloride (W. J. Thompson et al., J. Org. Chem. 49 (1984), 5237-5243, raw material; 7.00 g, apx 50% purity) was diluted with dichloromethane (50 ml), ethylenglycol (17 g) was added slowly and the mixture was stirred at room temperature over night. The mixture was partitioned between ether and water and the aqueous phase was extracted three times with ether. Each ether extract was washed with new water. The combined organic layers were dried over sodium chloride and evaporated to dryness in vacuo to yield the title compound (6.0 g) as raw material.

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