4-Chloropyridine → HCID 86695935, compound

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4-Chloropyridine (5 g, 44.0 mmol) hydrochloride salt was dried by azeotropic distillation with anhydrous toluene in a round bottomed flask. To this, anhydrous THF (100 mL) was added under nitrogen atmosphere and cooled to −78° C. After 15 min, LDA, 2M in THF/heptane/ethylbenzene (48.4 mL, 97 mmol) was added dropwise and the reaction stirred for 30 min. Oxetan-3-one (3.81 g, 52.8 mmol) was then added and reaction was stirred for 5 min at −78° C. and then cold bath was removed and reaction was allowed to warm to room temperature gradually (˜1 h). The reaction was quenched by addition of aqueous ammonium chloride and organics extracted with ethyl acetate (3×50 mL). The combined organic extracts were dried and concentrated under reduced pressure to afford 3-(4-chloropyridin-3-yl)oxetan-3-ol (3.8 g, 20.47 mmol, 46% yield) as a yellow oil.

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