Sodium borohydride → 1-(2-Aminopyridin-4-yl)ethanol

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To a mixture of 1-(2-aminopyridin-4-yl)ethanone (21) (168 mg, 1.234 mmol) in MeOH (10 mL), under nitrogen at 0° C., was added sodium borohydride (46.7 mg, 1.234 mmol). The resulting reaction mixture was stirred at RT for 2 hr, and then the solvents were removed under reduced pressure. The residue was taken up into EtOAc (25 mL), and extracted with saturated aq NaHCO3 solution (30 mL) and the layers separated. The aqueous layer was extracted with EtOAc (20 mL×2), and the combined organic extracts were washed with brine (30 mL), dried and the solvents removed under reduced pressure, to give 1-(2-aminopyridin-4-yl)ethanol (22) (77 mg, 45%) as a yellow oil: m/z 139 (M+H)+ (ES+).

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