Sodium hydride → 5-Chloro-1-(4-methoxy-benzyl)-3-nitro-1H-pyridin-2-one

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To a stirred solution of 5-chloro-3-nitropyridin-2-ol (12 g, 68.8 mmol) in DMF (80 ml) was added in several portions NaH (3.30 g, 83 mmol) at 0° C. The reaction mixture was stirred in the ice-bath for 2 hours. Then 4-methoxybenzyl chloride (11.19 ml, 83 mmol) was added and the reaction mixture was heated at 80° C. for 1 hour. The reaction mixture was quenched with aqueous saturated NaHCO3 solution and extracted twice with EtOAc. The organic layers were washed with brine, combined, dried over sodium sulphate, filtered and evaporated. The crude material was taken up in n-heptane/AcOEt 10:1 and the suspension was kept in the sonic bath for 10 minutes. After filtration the filtrate was washed with n-heptane and dried in vacuum to obtain 11.84 g (40.2 mmol, 58.4% yield) of the title compound as a greenish solid. LCMS: (M+H)=295; tR=0.94 min (LC-MS 4). 1H-NMR (d6-DMSO, 400 MHz) 8.72 (d, 1H) 8.56 (d, 1H) 7.36 (d, 2H) 6.94 (d, 2H) 5.13 (s, 2H) 3.74 (s, 3H).

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