Methylamine → N,3-Dimethyl-5-nitropyridin-2-amine

2-Chloro-3-methyl-5-nitropyridine (5.00 g, 29.0 mmol) was added portion wise to a cooled (0° C.) 35% solution of methylamine in EtOH (20 mL) and the reaction was allowed to warm to rt. After approximately 5 min an exotherm and gas evolution was observed and the reaction mixture solidified. EtOH (10 mL) was added and the reaction mixture was stirred at rt for 20 min, then diluted with ice/water (30 mL) and cooled to 0° C. The mixture was stirred vigorously for 15 min and then allowed to stand for 17 h. A solid was isolated by filtration, washed with H2O and dried in vacuo to yield N,3-dimethyl-5-nitropyridin-2-amine (4.44 g) which was used without further purification. A mixture of N,3-dimethyl-5-nitropyridin-2-amine (4.44 g, 26.6 mmol), Boc2O (11.6 g, 53.1 mmol) and 4-(dimethylamino)pyridine (649 mg, 5.31 mmol) in MeCN (230 mL) was stirred at 75° C. for 21 h. Further Boc2O (2.32 g, 10.6 mmol) was added and heating at 75° C. was continued for 24 h, before cooling to rt. Imidazole (5.06 g, 74.4 mmol) was added and the mixture concentrated in vacuo. Purification by gradient flash chromatography eluting with 5-20% EtOAc in heptane yielded the title compound (6.20 g, 23.2 mmol) as a yellow oil which solidified upon standing.

1. temperaturecooled to 0° C
2. stirringThe mixture was stirred vigorously for 15 min
3. waitto stand for 17 h
4. customA solid was isolated by filtration
5. washwashed with H2O
6. customdried in vacuo

ORD record

ord-9cc37dd8cca344dd8bc4cf743d3cb0f1

Source dataset

uspto-grants-2016_02

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US09249160B2