Pentane → HCID 131734898, compound

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To a 4 ml glass vial was added nickel acetate tetrahydrate (35 mg, 0.14 mmol), a Teflon stirbar, and distilled pyridine (1.4 ml). The vial was capped and the solution stirred vigorously to afford a blue solution. A solution of 2-nitro-N-(2-(pyridin-2-yl)phenyl)benzenesulfonamide (0.050 g, 0.14 mmol) in distilled pyridine (1.4 ml) was added to the reaction mixture dropwise. The resulting dark green-blue solution was stirred for 5 min, whereupon aqueous sodium hydroxide (2.55 M, 0.110 ml) was added dropwise. The mixture was sonicated briefly, leading to a yellow-green solution. Following 20 min, the solution was transferred to a 20 ml glass vial, and pentane (16 ml) was added dropwise with stirring, resulting in a biphasic system. The pentane layer was decanted, and ether (18 ml) was added. The mixture was stirred vigorously, leading to precipitation of a yellow solid. The mixture was centrifuged, the supernatant decanted, and the resulting residue was dried in vacuo. Minimal dicholoromethane was added to the residue, leading to the production of a quantity of orange solid. The mixture was filtered through Celite, affording a green solution that was concentrated in vacuo to afford the product 1x as a green solid (15.6 mg, 6%). An NMR sample was allowed to stand at ambient temperature for 2 days, during which time large green crystals grew. One of these crystals was analyzed by X-ray diffraction (see FIG. 5).

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