Acetic Acid → HCID 59583113, compound

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Reaction Conditions

Reaction Steps

An oven-dried 500 mL, 3-neck flask with magnetic stirrer, addition funnel, thermocouple and nitrogen inlet was charged with anhydrous zinc chloride (15.0 g, 0.11 mol) and cooled in an ice/salt bath. 100 mL of THF was then added dropwise. Butyllithium (134 mL, 2.5 M in hexanes, 0.34 mol) was then added dropwise such that the temperature was maintained below 0° C., giving a milky white solution that was stirred at 0° C. for 30 minutes. The ice/salt bath was replaced with a dry ice/acetone bath and the reaction cooled to −75° C. N,N-bis(2,2-dibromovinyl)pyridin-2-amine (5.0 g, 0.011 mol) in 50 mL of THF was added dropwise and the reaction stirred at −75° C. for 20 h. While still at −75° C., 100 mL of 10% acetic acid in THF was added dropwise and the cold solution poured into 150 mL of 1 N HCl. The reaction mixture was extracted with 3×100 mL of ether and the combined organics were washed with 2×100 mL of saturated NaHCO3, dried and evaporated leaving 3.0 g of an colorless liquid as the product.

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