Dimethylformamide → 5-Chloropyrazinoic acid

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5-Hydroxypyrazine-2-carboxylic acid (1.0 g, 0.007 mol) was taken in thionyl chloride (10 mL), to this solution dimethylformamide (0.1 mL) was added which was heated to reflux for 16 h. After this period, excess thionyl chloride was distilled off to get crude compound, which was added to ice (20 g) and extracted with ethyl acetate (2×70 mL). The organic layers were combined and dried over anhydrous sodium sulphate and concentrated under reduced pressure to obtain brown solid which was triturated with diethyl ether (30 mL) to afford 600 mg (75%) of 5-chloropyrazine-2-carboxylic acid.

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