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White or pale yellow solid

2-Amino-3,5-dimethylpyridine is used in the evaluation of?substituted 2-aminopyridines as inhibitors of nitric oxide synthases.

3,5-Dimethyl-N-(2,4,4-trimethylpentan-2-yl)pyridin-2-amine (6.5 g, 27.7 mmol) was mixed with 2. 2,2-Trifluoroacetic acid (46 mL, 621 mmol) was heated to 50 °C. for 4.5 hr. The mixture was concentrated under vacuum and then diluted with dichloromethane (10