Dimethylcarbamoyl Chloride → 6-Cyano-4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridyl

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4,4′-Dimethyl-2,2′-bipyridyl N-oxide (3.7 g, 18 mmol) was dissolved in nitroethane (50 ml), and trimethylsilyl cyanide (5.5 g, 55 mmol) and N,N-dimethylcarbamoyl chloride (2.9 g, 27 mmol) were added thereto. The mixture was stirred at room temperature for 36 hrs. The solvent was evaporated, and the residue was subjected to a silica gel column chromatography. The fractions eluted with hexane-ethyl acetate (5:1, v/v) were collected, concentrated and recrystallized from hexane-ethyl acetate to give the titled compound (3.4 g, 87%) as white crystals.

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