Triethylamine → 5-bromo-N,N-dimethylpicolinamide

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5-Bromopyridine-2-carboxylic acid (20 g, 100 mmol, Frontier Scientific catalog# B1704) was stirred in methylene chloride (30 mL) and cooled to 0° C. 2.0 M oxalyl chloride in methylene chloride (100 mL) was added slowly, followed by N,N-dimethylformamide (0.8 mL). The mixture was stirred for 30 minutes at 0° C. and then room temperature overnight. The mixture was evaporated, redissolved in methylene chloride (130 mL) and was added slowly to a mixture of dimethylamine hydrochloride (9.8 g, 120 mmol) and triethylamine (56.1 mL, 400 mmol) in methylene chloride (130 mL) cooled to 0° C. The reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for 2 hrs. This mixture was diluted with methylene chloride (200 mL) and washed with saturated sodium bicarbonate, brine, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and evaporated. The product was purified by FCC on silica gel using ethyl acetate in hexanes (0-60%) gradient to give 5-bromo-N,N-dimethylpyridine-2-carboxamide, (22.0 g, 100%). LCMS calculated for C8H10BrN2O (M+H)+: m/z=229.0, 231.0; found: 228.9, 230.9.

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