Hydrochloric Acid → Ethyl 2-(2-methylimidazo[4,5-c]pyrid-1-yl)pyrid-5-oylacetate

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Ethyl potassium malonate (57 mg) was suspended in dry tetrahydrofuran (1 ml) and 2M isopropyl magnesium chloride in THF (170 μl) added. The suspension was sonicated for 1/2 hour giving a homogenous solution. This was added with stirring to the suspension of 6-(2-methylimidazo[4,5-c]pyrid-1-yl)pyrid-3-oyl chloride in dichloromethane. The mixture was stirred at room temperature for 1/2 hour. It was then poured into 1N hydrochloric acid, stirred for 15 minutes and adjusted to pH8 with saturated sodium bicarbonate. The aqueous phase was extracted with dichloromethane (2×10 ml), the extracts combined, dried over magnesium sulphate and the solvent removed under reduced pressure yielding the title compound as a pale red oil (40 mg, 63%) [as a 1:1 mixture of enol and keto tautomers].

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