Hydrochloric Acid → 2-Hydroxy-5-acetylpyridine

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2-methoxy-5-acetyl pyridine (1.51 g, 10 mmol) was treated with 6N HCl at 100° C. for 5 hours. The reaction mixture was neutralized with sodium hydroxide to pH 7 and then extracted several times with DCM. Organic layer was dried over sodium sulfate, evaporated and the residue was crystallized from ethyl acetate to give 5-acetyl-2(1H)-pyridone as a white solid, 1.06 g (78%). This compound (685.7 mg, 5 mmol) was reacted with iodobenzene (0.84 ml, 7.5 mmol) in the presence of CuI (95 mg, 0.5 mmol) and K2CO3 (691 mg, 5 mmol) in DMF (5 ml) at 135° C. overnight. The reaction mixture was diluted with 10% ammonia (15 ml) and extracted with ethyl acetate. The organic extract was washed with saturated sodium chloride, dried over magnesium sulfate and evaporated. Column chromatography (10% ethyl acetate-DCM) afforded 407 mg (38%) of the target compound as a white solid. The 1H NMR spectra was consistent with the structure of Compound 16.

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