Ethanol → 5-Amino-3-phenyl-1,2-oxazole-4-carbonitrile

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Reaction Steps

Hydroxylamine hydrochloride was suspended in water (30 ml) and sodium hydroxide (4.4 g, 0.11 mole) and then ethanol (40 ml) was added, followed by batchwise addition of 2-(ethoxy-phenyl-methylene)-malononitrile (21.7 g, 0.11 mole). The reaction mixture was heated to 50° C. for 2 hours. The ethanol was removed under vacuum and the precipitate was filtered. The precipitate was redissolved in 50% ethyl acetate/hexanes and chromatographed on silica gel to give 8.2 g of product after removal of solvent (yield: 40%). The rest of the sequence was made by analogy to the methyl replacement of the phenyl analog.

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