Ethanol → Dodecylpyridinium chloride

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The corresponding compounds of pyridine or substituted pyridine, as six-member heterocycle, can be prepared from the corresponding alkyl bromides or iodides in methanol at 35° C. and pyridine or substituted pyridines with a yield of 70%. The corresponding molar amounts of the alkyl bromide, almost all of which are available commercially but which must be subsequently preparatively purified by high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC), are firstly dissolved in methanol (10 times excess volume with respect to pyridine) and under nitrogen the stoichiometric amount of pyridine, also dissolved :n methanol, added dropwise whilst stirring. Heating is carried out for 6 hours under reflux whilst stirring at 70° C. so that the reaction yield is almost quantitative. Thus, for example, the yield of hexadecyl-4-hydroxypyridinium chloride or bromide in methanol as solvent is 95%, with ethanol 80% and in ether/ethanol only 40%. Dodecylpyridinium chloride is obtained with a yield of almost 70%. 3,5-dihydroxydodecylpyridinium bromide is formed quantitatively in accordance with the above procedure from dodecyl bromide and 3,5-dihydroxypyridine in boiling chloroform after 4 hours (melting point 180° C.).

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