Hydrochloric Acid → 3-Methyl-2-[pyridine-3-carbonyl-amino]-pentanoic acid

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To a solution of 3-methyl-2-[pyridine-3-carbonyl-amino]-pentanoic acid methyl ester (1.5 g, 5.9 mmol), in methanol (10 mL), THF (9 mL), was added LiOH (1.25 g, 29.9 mmol) dissolved in water (3 mL). The mixture was allowed to stir at room temperature (25° C.) over 3 h. Methanol and THF was stripped off from the reaction mass, acidified the reaction mass using 1.5N HCl (pH=2-3). Extracted the reaction mass with ethyl acetate (100 mL) thrice and dried over sodium sulphate and concentrated to obtain product as pale yellow solid (0.7 g, 50%).

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