6-methoxyisoquinolin-1(2H)-one → Isoquinoline

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6-Methoxy-2H-isoquinolin-1-one (5.0 g, 28.4 mmol) in POCl3 (10 mL) was heated to gentle reflux for 3 h the evaporated in vacuo (Nicolas Briet et al, Tetrahedron, 2002, 5761–5766). The residue was poured into iced water (20 mL) and neutralized to pH 10 with 10 M NaOH. Extracted with CHCl3. The organic layer was washed with brine, dried over MgSO4, filtered, evaporated. The residue was purified by flash chromatography (1:1 hexane-EtOAc) to afford 4.41 g (80%) of the desired product as a white solid.

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