Diethyl Malonate → Diethyl 2-(3-nitropyridin-4-yl)malonate

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To a suspension of 3.05 g of 60% sodium hydride (76.0 mmol) in toluene (50 mL) in a 250 mL RB flask was added 12.2 g of diethyl malonate (76.0 mmol) dropwise. The reaction mixture was stirred for 30 min under nitrogen, and a solution of 10.8 g of 4-chloro-3-nitropyridine (prepared according to the procedure of Houston et al. J. Med. Chem. 1985, 28, 467) in toluene (50 mL) was added dropwise and the resulting mixture refluxed for 4 hours. The reaction mixture was concentrate, and the residue was partitioned between 100 mL each of dilute hydrochloric acid and diethyl ether. The aqueous phase was extracted twice with 100 mL of ether, and the combined ether phases were dried over magnesium sulfate and concentrated to give a dark oil. This was chromatographed on silica gel eluting with a hexane-30% hexane/EtOAc gradient to give 3.5 g of the title compound as a colorless oil which crystallized on standing. 1H NMR (DMSO-d6): δ 1.15 (t, J=7.1 Hz, 6H), 4.16 (q, J=7.1 Hz, 4H), 5.55 (s, 1H), 7.59 (d, J=5.1 Hz, 1H), 8.89 (d, J=5.1 Hz, 1H), 9.24 (s, 1H); C12H14N2O6: APES-MS m/z 281 (M−H).

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