Nitric Acid → HCID 70819594, compound

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Premixed nitric acid (d 1.5, 0.15 g) and sulfuric acid (0.05 g) was added dropwise at 5-10° C. to 3 (94 mg) in sulfuric acid (d 1.64, 0.5 g). The mixture was heated at 80° C. for 1 hr then cooled and added to ice. Saturated aqueous sodium carbonate was added until effervescence ceased. The mixture was extracted with portions of ethyl ether. The combined organic phase was dried over anhydrous MgSO4 and concentrated under diminished pressure to afford a crude residue. Elution with hexane/ethyl acetate gave 3-heptyl-2,6-dimethyl-5-nitropyridin-4(1H)-one (13) as a yellow oil: yield 76 mg (67%); silica gel TLC Rf 0.45 (1:1 hexane/ethyl acetate); 1H NMR (400 MHz, CDCl3) δ 0.77-0.81 (m, 3H), 1.19-1.27 (m, 10H), 2.29 (s, 3H), 2.35 (s, 3H) and 2.44-2.47 (m, 2H).

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