Phosphorus pentachloride → 2-Chloro-5,6-dimethyl-3-nitropyridine

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5,6-Dimethyl-3-nitro-2-pyridone (1-013-04) (841 mg) and phosphorus pentachloride (1.25 g) was heated with stirring in an oil bath at 140° C. under nitrogen atmosphere. After 35 min, the reaction mixture was cooled under ice-cooling, poured into ice-water, extracted with twice with chloroform, and washed once with water and a saturated aqueous solution of sodium bicarbonate. To the extract was added a decolorzing charcoal, and the extract was dried over magnesium sulfate, and evaporated under reduced pressure to give 2-chloro-5,6-dimethyl-3-nitropyridine (1-013-05) (842 mg, 90.2%) as a crystalline residue.

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