Ammonium Hydroxide → 3-Amino-5-chloropyridine-2-carboxamide

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To a suspension of 5-chloro-2-cyano-3-nitropyridine (1.274 mL, 10.9 mmol) in water (22 mL) was added 28% aqueous ammonium hydroxide (3.94 mL, 28.3 mmol), and the reaction was stirred at RT for 20 minutes. Sodium hydrosulfite (2.68 mL, 32.7 mmol) was added, and the reaction mixture was stirred at RT for 70 minutes. The yellow precipitate was collected by vacuum filtration to provide the title compound (1.097 g, 6.39 mmol) as yellow solid. 1H-NMR (400 MHz, DMSO-d6): δ 7.88 (br. s, 1H), δ7.73 (s, 1H), δ7.39 (br. s, 1H), δ7.23 (s, 1H), δ7.06 (br. s, 2H). LC/MS (ESI+) m/z=172 (M+H)+.

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