Acetic Acid → 3-dimethylaminomethyl-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester

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In a 50 mL round-bottomed flask, dimethylamine hydrochloride (4.91 g, 60.3 mmol, Eq: 6) was added to 37% aqueous formaldehyde (4.49 mL, 60.3 mmol, Eq: 6). Ethyl 1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine-2-carboxylate (1.91 g, 10.0 mmol, Eq: 1.00) in ethanol (50 mL) was added followed by acetic acid (5.00 mL, 87.3 mmol, Eq: 8.7). The reaction mixture was heated to 85° C. and stirred over the weekend. The crude reaction mixture was filtered through a pad of Celite, concentrated in vacuo to ˜20% of its original volume, water (100 mL) was added, and this was then washed with DCM (50 mL). The aqueous layer was cooled, basified to pH 11 through the addition of 3 M aqueous NaOH and extracted with DCM. The organic layers were dried over Na2SO4 and concentrated in vacuo to give 3-dimethylaminomethyl-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester as light yellow solid (1.9 g), m/z=248 (M+H).

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