Water → N-[2-(3,5-dichloropyridin-2-yl)-2-oxoethyl]-2-(trifluoromethyl)benzamide

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To 17.6 g of 2-bromo-3,5-dichloropyridin in 5 ml of tetrahydrofuran, 58.3 ml of a 1.3M tetrahydrofuran solution of isopropylmagnesium chloride-lithium chloride complex was added dropwise with stirring at −20° C., and after the addition, the mixture was stirred at the same temperature for 30 minutes. Then, to the reaction mixture, 10.0 g of N-[2-methoxy(methyl)amino-2-oxoethyl]-2-(trifluoromethyl)benzamide in 57.4 ml of tetrahydrofuran was added dropwise, and after the addition, the mixture was stirred at room temperature for another 3 hours. After completion of the reaction, the reaction mixture was mixed with 100 ml of saturated aqueous ammonium chloride and 100 ml of water and extracted with ethyl acetate (150 ml×2), the resulting organic layers were combined, washed with water (100 ml×1) and dried over saturated aqueous sodium chloride and then anhydrous sodium sulfate, and the solvent was distilled off under reduced pressure. The residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography using ethyl acetate-hexane (with a gradient of from 5:95 to 50:50) as the eluent to obtain 3.0 g of the desired product as pale yellow crystals.

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