Ethyl orthoformate → HCID 178505977, compound

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A stirred mixture of 5-fluoropyridine-2,3-diamine (1.13 g) from Step 1 of this Example, formic acid (0.5 mL), and triethylorthoformate (15 mL) was heated at 100° C. for 1 h. The reaction mixture was cooled to rt, filtered, and the filtrate was concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was purified via silica gel flash chromatography eluting with 100% DCM to 10% MeOH in DCM to afford 6-fluoro-3H-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (760 mg, 36% over two steps) as a yellow solid. 1H NMR (500 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ 13.09 (br s, 1H), 8.49 (s, 1H), 8.37 (s, 1H), 7.97 (d, J=7.9 Hz, 1H). LCMS (ESI) m/z 138 (M+H)+.

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