Hydrochloric Acid → 5-Cyclopropoxypyrazine-2-carboxylic acid

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Lithium hydroxide (264 mg, 6.28 mmol) is added to a solution of methyl 5-(cyclopropoxy)pyrazine-2-carboxylate (610 mg, 3.14 mmol) in tetrahydrofuran (10 mL) and water (0.5 mL). The reaction mixture is stirred for 1 hour at 50° C., cooled to ambient temperature, diluted with water, brought to pH=2 by slow addition of 1 M HCl, and extracted with dichloromethane (4 times). The organic layers are combined, dried over sodium sulfate, filtered, and concentrated under reduced pressure to give the title compound (550 mg, 97%). ES/MS (m/e): 181.0 (M+1).

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