Triphenylphosphine → 2-((Trimethylsilyl)ethynyl)nicotinonitrile

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In a suitably sized pressure vessel, commercially available 2-chloro-nictinonitrile (1.5 g, 10.8 mmol) was combined with triphenylphosphine (0.228 g, 8 mole %) and palladium (II) acetate (0.083 g, 3.5 mol %) in triethylamine (20 mL). Nitrogen was bubbled through the resulting suspension at room temperature for five minutes then trimethylsilylacetylene (8.5 mL, 60.1 mmol) was added, the vessel sealed and immersed in an 80° C. oil bath. After 18.5 h the pressure tube was cooled to room temperature and the contents were filtered. The filtrate was concentrated under vacuum and the crude product purified by flash chromatography on silica gel eluting with EtOAc/hexanes to give the title compound (1.62 g, 75%) as a tan solid.

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