Phenyltrimethylammonium bromide dibromide → 2-Bromo-1-(3,5-dichloropyridin-2-yl)ethanone

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To 5.00 g of 1-(3,5-dichloropyridin-2-yl)ethanone in 75 ml of tetrahydrofuran, 9.94 g of trimethylphenylammonium tribromide was added, and the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 16 hours. After completion of the reaction, the precipitated solid was filtered off through celite, and the solvent was evaporated under reduced pressure. The resulting residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography using ethyl acetate-hexane (with a gradient of from 5:95 to 15:85) as the eluent to obtain 6.64 g of the desired product as a brown oil.

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