Sodium hydride → 2-Fluoro-3-{3-fluoro-1-[tris(1-methylethyl)silyl]-1H-pyrrol-2-yl}pyridine

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To a suspension of sodium hydride (3.32 g) in tetrahydrofuran (70 mL) was added dropwise a solution of 2-fluoro-3-(3-fluoro-1H-pyrrol-2-yl)pyridine (5.98 g) in tetrahydrofuran (30 mL) under ice-cooling and the mixture was stirred for 30 min. 15-Crown-5 (18.3 g) and tris(1-methylethyl)silyl trifluoromethanesulfonate (25.4 g) were added, and the mixture was stirred for 1 hr. The solvent was evaporated to a half volume under reduced pressure, water was added, and the mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate. The separated aqueous layer was extracted again with ethyl acetate. Combined organic layers were washed with saturated brine, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was purified by basic silica gel column chromatography (eluent: hexane→hexane-ethyl acetate=19:1) to give the title compound as a pale-yellow oil (yield 10.9 g, 98%).

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