Ammonium Chloride → 5-Bromo-2-methylpyridin-3-amine

HRID 2203654Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 2203654 reaction equation
[Br:1][C:2]1[CH:3]=[C:4]([N+:9]([O-])=O)[C:5]([CH3:8])=[N:6][CH:7]=1.[Cl-].[NH4+]>[Fe].C(O)C.O>[Br:1][C:2]1[CH:3]=[C:4]([NH2:9])[C:5]([CH3:8])=[N:6][CH:7]=1

Participants

5

Conditions

Temperature
80 °C

Procedure

To a solution of 5-bromo-2-methyl-3-nitropyridine (8.0 g, 37 mmol) in 4:1 ethanol/water (250 mL) was added iron (16.5 g, 295 mmol) and ammonium chloride (15.8 g, 295 mmol). The mixture was stirred at 80° C. for 3 h. The mixture was filtered, and the filtrate was concentrated in vacuo to give 5-bromo-2-methylpyridin-3-amine (6.8 g, 99% crude yield), which was without further purification.

Workup

  1. filtrationThe mixture was filtered
  2. concentrationthe filtrate was concentrated in vacuo

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-2d1f2c928771492a977480544466262b
Source dataset
uspto-grants-2016_06
Patent number
US09365583B2

Reaction notes

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