Sodium Methoxide → HCID 178492314, compound

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To a pressure vessel was added 4-chloro-2-hydroxy-6-methylnicotinonitrile (337 mg, 2.0 mmol), sodium methoxide (530 mg, 10.0 mmol), methanol (15 mL), and a magnetic stirrer. The pressure vessel was sealed, and was stirred at 100° C. for 16 hours before the solvent was removed by rotary evaporation. To the residue was added water (10 mL) and ethyl acetate (50 mL). The organic layer was separated and concentrated in vacuo to provide crude product which was purified by column chromatography (silica gel, dichloromethane/methanol=40:1) to afford 2-hydroxy-4-methoxy-6-methylnicotinonitrile (70 mg, 21%) as a brown solid.

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