Sodium Hydroxide → 2-broMo-3-(difluoroMethoxy)pyridine

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A mixture of 2-bromopyridin-3-ol (3.55 g, 20.4 mmol), sodium chlorodifluoroacetate (6.22 g, 40.8 mmol), and NaOH (0.90 g, 22.4 mmol) in DMF (20 ml) was heated at 55° C. for 111 h. The reaction was allowed to cool to rt and concentrated, and resulting residue was partitioned between EtOAc/sat. Na2CO3 (80 ml/40 ml). The organic phase was collected and washed with brine (40 ml), dried (Na2SO4), concentrated and the resulting residue was purified by flash chromatography (SiO2, 100:0-0:100 hexanes-EtOAc) to provide 1.95 g (43%) of 2-bromo-3-(difluoromethoxy)pyridine: LCMS (m/z, MH+): 225.9, tR=0.74 min; 1H NMR (CDCl3, 400 MHz) δ 8.23-8.33 (m, 1H), 7.52-7.60 (m, 1H), 7.27-7.35 (m, 1H), 6.60 (t, J=72.4 Hz, 1H).

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