Acetic Acid → HCID 22145875, compound

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Water (4 drops is added to a solution of 4-cyclopentyloxy-5-difluoromethoxy-2-trityloxypyridine (900 mg) in glacial acetic acid (20 mL) and the mixture heated at 60° C. for 18 hours. After cooling the mixture is evaporated to dryness and the residue partitioned between water and ethyl acetate. The organic phase is dried over magnesium sulphate and evaporated to give a pale yellow solid which is purified by flash chromatography (gradient elution using n-pentane/ethyl acetate 7:3 v/v to n-pentane/ethyl acetate 2:3 v/v on silica) to give 4-cyclopentyloxy-5-difluoromethoxy-2-hydroxymethylpyridine (250 mg) as a white solid, m.p. 85-6° C.

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