Phosphorus oxychloride → 8-Chloro-3-methoxy-1,7-naphthyridine

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To a mixture of 3-methoxy-1,7-naphthyridin-8(7H)-one (4.50 g, 25.5 mmol) in acetonitrile (102 ml) was added phosphorus oxychloride (11.69 ml, 128 mmol). The reaction mixture was heated to 85° C. for 5 h. The solution was cooled to rt and concentrated in vacuo. The resulting brown residue was partitioned between CH2Cl2 and aqueous saturated NaHCO3 solution; the aqueous layer was back-extracted with DCM (3×). The combined organic extracts were dried over sodium sulfate, the filtrate was concentrated in vacuo, and the residue was purified by silica gel chromatography (5%-30% of 9:1 DCM:MeOH in DCM) to afford 8-chloro-3-methoxy-1,7-naphthyridine (3.00 g, 15.41 mmol, 60.3% yield) as an off-white solid. MS m/z=195 (M+H).

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