Ammonium Hydroxide → HCID 59594021, compound

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To a suspension of copper(I) cyanide (17.3 g, 11 mmol) in 1730 mL of anhydrous THF in an oven-dried, five liter, three-necked flask equipped with a mechanical stirrer and a nitrogen inlet was added tert-butylmagnesium chloride (200 mL, 2.0 M, 400 mmol) via an addition funnel, and the mixture was stirred at −78° C. for 30 min. A solution of 2-(biphenyl-3-yl)-5-bromopyridine (15.0 g, 48 mmol) in 100 mL of dry THF was then added dropwise, and the mixture was stirred for 3 hours at −78° C. and then overnight at room temperature. Saturated aqueous ammonium hydroxide was then added to quench the reaction mixture, the pH was adjusted to 10 with aqueous sodium hydroxide, and the mixture was extracted with methylene chloride. The organic layer was dried over magnesium sulfate and evaporated to dryness to give 9.0 g of light yellow liquid that was purified by flash silica gel chromatography with a 2.5/97.5 to 7.5/92.5 ethyl acetate/hexane gradient as the eluent, affording 2.6 g (19%) of 2-(biphenyl-3-yl)-5-tert-butylpyridine as a colorless liquid.

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