3-Amino-1-propanol → 4-(3-Hydroxypropylamino)-3-nitropyridine

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3-Amino-1-propanol (4.5 g, 60.0 mmol) was added slowly to a mixture of 4-chloro-3-nitropyridine (8.0 g, 50.5 mmol) and sodium hydrogen carbonate (4.2 g, 50.0 mmol) in ethanol (200 ml). The mixture was stirred for 3 h at ambient temperature and the solvent removed under reduced pressure. Saturated aqueous sodium hydrogen carbonate (50 ml) was added to the residue, which was extracted with ethyl acetate (3×200 ml). The combined organics were dried over anhydrous sodium sulphate, filtered and evaporated. Crystallisation from ethyl acetate gave 4-(3-hydroxypropylamino)-3-nitropyridine (4.3 g, 43%) as an orange crystalline solid.

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