Isobutyronitrile → 2-(4-Iodopyridin-2-yl)-2-methylpropanenitrile

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An oven-dried flask was evacuated and back-filled with nitrogen three times. The flask was charged with 2-chloro-4-iodo-pyridine (3 g, 12.53 mmol) and isobutyronitrile (865.9 mg, 1.125 mL, 12.53 mmol) in anhydrous toluene (30.00 mL). The reaction mixture was cooled to 0° C. and treated with bis(trimethylsilyl)azanide in tetrahydrofuran (sodium ion (1)) (12.53 mL of 1 M, 12.53 mmol) over a period of 5 minutes. The reaction mixture was allowed to warm to ambient temperature and stirred at this temperature for 3 hours. The reaction mixture was diluted with ethyl acetate and washed with 1 M hydrochloric acid. The aqueous layer was extracted with ethyl acetate (×3) and the combined organic extracts dried MgSO4, filtered and concentrated in vacuo. The residue was purified by column chromatography (ISCO Companion, 80 g column) loaded with dichloromethane and eluted with 0 to 30% ethyl acetate/petroleum ether. Product fractions were combined and concentrated in vacuo to give the sub-title product as an off-white solid (2.22 g, 65% Yield). 1H NMR (400.0 MHz, DMSO-d6) δ 1.70 (s, 6H), 7.84 (dd, 1H), 7.98 (d, 1H) and 8.31 (d, 1H) ppm; LC/MS m/z 273.0 [M+H]+

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