3,5-Dichloropyrazine-2-carbaldehyde → 3,5-Dichloro-α-methyl-2-pyrazinemethanol

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3,5-Dichloro-pyrazine-2-carbaldehyde (5.0 g) was dissolved in dry tetrahydrofuran (100 ml) in a reaction vessel equipped with a magnetic stirring bar under an argon atmosphere. The solution was cooled on an ice-bath before slow addition of 10.3 ml methylmagnesium bromide solution (3M in tetrahydrofuran), keeping the internal temperature in the reaction vessel below 5° C. After the addition the cooling bath was removed and the reaction mixture stirred for another 10 min. Then the reaction mixture was quenched with a saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate solution (100 ml) and extracted with EtOAc (3×200 ml). The combined aqueous phases were dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and evaporated to afford 1-(3,5-dichloro-pyrazin-2-yl)-ethanol as a dark brown oil. Yield: 5.23 g (96%).

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