Glycine → (3-Nitro-pyridin-2-ylamino)-acetic acid

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2-Chloro-3-nitropyridine (5 g, 31.5 mmol) was dissolved in EtOH (125 ml), added potassium carbonate (4.35 g, 31.5 mmol) and to this mixture glycine (4.73 g, 6.3 mmol) in 25 ml water was added and refluxed for overnight. The reaction mixture cooled to 0° C. to obtain the solid. Then EtOH was removed on rotavapour and acidified with 2N HCl and solid filtered and dried on vacuum to obtain the title compound quantitatively as a yellow solid.

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