Sodium hydride → 2-(5-Bromo-alpha-cyano-2-methoxymethoxybenzyl)-3-methoxymethoxypyridine

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To a mixture of 5-bromo-2-methoxymethoxybenzyl cyanide (2.10 g), 2-bromo-3-methoxymethoxypyridine (1.79 g), sodium p-toluenesulfinate (0.44 g) and THF (30 ml) was added, at room temperature, 60% sodium hydride (0.69 g), followed by heating for 2 hours under reflux under argon atmosphere. The reaction mixture was poured into a saturated aqueous saline solution, which was subjected to extraction with ethyl acetate. The extract solution was washed with a saturated aqueous saline solution, dried (anhydrous sodium sulfate), and concentrated. The concentrate was purified by means of a silica gel column chromatography (eluted with ethyl acetate/hexane) to give 2-(5-bromo-α-cyano-2-methoxymethoxybenzyl)-3-methoxymethoxypyridine (2.58 g), whose physical properties and spectrum data are shown in Table 9 and Table 12.

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