Acetic Acid → 3-Amino-6-chloropyridine-2-carbonitrile

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To a suspension of 6-chloro-3-nitro-pyridine-2-carbonitrile (5.5 g, 30 mmol) in water (100 ml), was added acetic acid (5.4 ml, 90 mmol). The mixture was stirred at room temperature for 20 minutes. Then, Na2S2O4 (20 g, 86%, 90 mmol) was added slowly. The reaction mixture was stirred at room temperature for another 2 hours. The precipitate was filtered off and washed with cold water (2×10 ml). The precipitate was dried over P2O5 yielding the title compound as a yellowish solid (3.7 g, yield: 80%) which was characterised as follows:

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