Sodium Carbonate → 2-Chloro-3-octyl-6-(4-octyloxyphenyl)pyridine

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0.32 g (0.8 mmol) of 3-octyl-6-(4-octyloxyphenyl)-1H-2-pyridone are heated together with 15 ml of phosphorus oxytrichloride in a sealed tube at 200° C. for 3 hours. The reaction mixture is poured onto ice water, and the resulting mixture is made basic with sodium carbonate. Extraction of the aqueous phase with methylene chloride, washing of the organic phase with sodium chloride solution, drying over sodium sulfate, filtration, removal of the solvent by distillation and chromatography (silica gel, 8:2 hexane/ethyl acetate) give 0.22 g of 2-chloro-3-octyl-6-(4-octyloxyphenyl)pyridine. ##STR15##

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