Triethylamine → 4-Bromo-3,6-dimethyl-pyridine-2-carbonitrile

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To a Smith microwave vial was added 4-bromo-2,5-dimethyl-1-oxido-pyridin-1-ium (which may be prepared as described in Description 136), (300 mg, 1.48 mmol), diethoxyphosphorylformonitrile (0.9 mL, 5.94 mmol) and triethylamine (0.41 mL, 2.97 mmol) in anhydrous MeCN (1 mL). The reaction mixture was heated by microwave at 80° C. for 1 h. The reaction mixture was evaporated and the crude dark oil was purified on silica gel chromatography (10 g SiO2) eluting with ethyl acetate in iso-hexane (0-80%). Evaporation of desired fractions gave 4-bromo-3,6-dimethyl-pyridine-2-carbonitrile (D137) (218 mg, 1.0329 mmol, 69.6% yield) as colourless solid;

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