Diethyl Ether → HCID 178487891, compound

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5-Amino-2-methoxypyridine (55.0 g, 0.44 mole) in methanol (1000 mL) with methyl propiolate (40 mL, 0.44 mole) was stirred for 48 hours, then evaporated and the product purified by chromatography on silica gel (dichloromethane) followed by recrystallization from dichloromethane-hexane (44.6 g, 48%). The unsaturated ester (10.5 g, 0.05 mole) in warm Dowtherm A (50 mL) was added over 3 minutes to refluxing Dowtherm A, and after a further 20 minutes at reflux the mixture was cooled and poured into diethyl ether. The precipitate was filtered to give a solid (6.26 g, 70%).

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