Methylamine → 6-Chloro-N-methyl-3-pyridinemethanamine

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A mixture of 15.05 g of 2-chloro-5-(chloromethyl) pyridine and 50 ml of acetonitrile was dropwise added to a mixture of 36 g of 40% methylamine aqueous solution and 200 ml of acetonitrile during an hour at room temperature and stirred for an hour and a half. The reaction mixture was concentrated. The resulting residue to which 100 ml of water was added, was neutralized by sodium hydrogen carbonate, saturated with sodium chloride and extracted with dichloromethane (200 ml ×2). The organic layer was dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate, concentrated and purified by a column chromatography [developing solvent: dichloromethane-methanol (4:1)] to afford 8.77 g of 2-chloro-5-(methylaminomethyl)pyridine as a yellowish brown liquid.

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