Ethyl Acetate → HCID 18673021, compound

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To a suspension of lithium aluminum hydride (52 mg, 1.25 mmol) in diethyl ether (2 mL) under argon was added 2-(2-thienyl)thiazole-5-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (lit: Robba, M., LeGuen, Y., Bull. Soc. Chim. Fr., 1969(5)1762; 0.3 g, 1.25 mmol) at 0° C. The reaction mixture was allowed to equilibrate to room temperature and was stirred for 24 h. The reaction was re-cooled to 0° C. and was quenched by the careful addition of saturated aqueous ammonium chloride solution dropwise until no further reaction was apparent. The resulting solids were recovered by filtration, washed with diethyl ether and retained for further processing (vide infra). The filtrate was washed with brine, dried (MgSO4), filtered and concentrated under reduced pressure. The solids that were recovered from the ammonium chloride quench were then slurried in ethyl acetate, filtered and washed with ethyl acetate. The resulting filtrate was washed with brine, dried (MgSO4), filtered and evaporated reduced pressure. The solid residues obtained from the work up of both the diethyl ether filtrate and the ethyl acetate filtrate were combined to yield 179 mg (72% yield) of 2-(2-thienyl)thiazole-5-methanol as a yellow solid.

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