Methanol → HCID 86590716, compound

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A mixture of 1,12-diaminododecane (100.1 grams, 0.50 mol; obtained from Sigma-Aldrich Co.) and ethyl cyanoacetate (135.2 grams, 128 milliliters, 1.20 mol; obtained from Spectrum Chemicals, New Brunswick, N.J.), in a 2 liter flask was stirred and heated at 150° C. for 1 hour, after which time the amine had been completely converted to the bis(cyanoacetate) as indicated by 1H-NMR analysis. Ethyl acetoacetate (383 milliliters, 3.00 mol; obtained from Lonza Group, Germany), piperazine (172 grams, 2.00 mol; obtained from Spectrum Chemicals), and dimethyl formamide (300 milliliters) were then added to the reaction mixture and the mixture was heated at 120° C. for 4 hours. The resultant pale brown solution was then cooled to 25° C. and was poured into a mixture of methanol (1,500 milliliters), water (500 milliliters), and concentrated (70 percent) nitric acid (300 grams, 258 milliliters, 4.0 mol). A precipitate formed at once. The suspension was stirred overnight, followed by filtration and washing of the solid with 5×500 milliliter portions of 75:25 (volume ratio) of a methanol-water mixture and subsequent drying at 60° C. to give 198 grams (85 percent yield) of dodecamethylene dipyridone as a cream-white solid, which decomposed without melting at 210° C.

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