Ammonia → 6-Chloro-2-(4-fluorophenyl)-3,4'-bipyridine-5-carbonitrile

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A mixture of 2-(4-fluorophenyl)-6-hydroxy-3,4′-bipyridine-5-carbonitrile (6.57 g, 22.5 mmol, obtained in reference example 10), POCl3 (26.3 mL, 287.5 mmol) and DMF (0.37 mL) was heated to reflux under argon atmosphere for 2 h. It was cooled with an ice bath and basified by adding 30% aqueous NH3. The precipitate obtained was filtered and washed with water. The product was purified by chromatography on silica gel using hexane-EtOAc mixtures of increasing polarity as eluent, to afford 3.86 g of the desired product as a yellow solid (yield: 55%).

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