Jan-Feb 1993 Synthesis of 4,6-Disubstituted 2-Methylpyridines and their 3-Carboxamides Katsuyoshi Shibata*, Isamu Katsuyama, Hideaki Izoe, Masaki Matsui and Hiroshige Muraraatsu Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Yanagido 1-1, Gifu 501-11, Japan Received May 29, 1992 A new one-pot synthesis of title compounds by the reactions of a,/3-unsaturated carbonyl compounds with /3-aminocrotononitrile in the presence of sodium hydroxide is ...