Potassium Carbonate → 2,5-Dichloropyridine-4-carbonitrile

To 100 ml of acetonitrile was added 24.5 g of POCl3, followed by 27.1 g of 2,5-dichloro-4-pyridinecarboxaldehyde oxime (prepared as described in Example 4). The reaction mixture was heated at reflux temperature for 1 hour, then cooled and poured onto 300 g of ice. The pH of the mixture was adjusted to about pH 6 with K2CO3 and filtered. The filtrate was extracted with 100 ml of CH2Cl2. The filter cake and the CH2Cl2 solution were combined, diluted with equal volumes of hexane, treated with charcoal, dried, and concentrated. The residue was purified by distillation on a Kugelrohr distillation apparatus (boiling point 80° C. at 0.2 mm pressure) to give 19.0 g (77%) of the desired 2,5-dichloro-4-pyridinecarbonitrile as a white solid, m.p. 58°-60° C.

1. temperatureThe reaction mixture was heated
2. temperatureat reflux temperature for 1 hour
3. temperaturecooled
4. filtrationfiltered
5. extractionThe filtrate was extracted with 100 ml of CH2Cl2
6. additiondiluted with equal volumes of hexane
7. additiontreated with charcoal
8. customdried
9. concentrationconcentrated
10. distillationThe residue was purified by distillation on a Kugelrohr distillation apparatus (boiling point 80° C. at 0.2 mm pressure)

ORD record

ord-ce726209030f425f86002d234f826cb2

Source dataset

uspto-grants-1985_12

DOI

10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1

Patent number

US04558134