2-Pyrazinecarboxylic acid → Methyl pyrazinoate

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Acetyl chloride (50 ml) was added very slowly to methanol (500 ml), and the mixture was allowed to cool before pyrazine-2-carboxylic acid (15 g, 124 mmol) in methanol (15 ml) was added. The reaction mixture was left to stand at room temperature overnight. The methanol was removed in vacuo to give the required product (22 g). 1H NMR (250 MHz, DMSO) δ 3.95 (3H, s), 8.82 (1H, m), 8.90 (1H, d, J=2.5 Hz), 9.21 (1H, d, J=2.5 Hz); MS (ES+) m/e 153 [MH+].

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