Potassium ethylxanthate → HCID 178486928, compound

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Potassium O-ethyl dithiocarbonate (321 mg, 2.0 mmol) was added to a solution of the aminophenol (199 mg, 1.0 mmol) in ethanol (5 ml) and the mixture was heated to reflux for 16 hours. The reaction solution was concentrated, water (30 ml) was added thereto and the mixture was adjusted to pH, 3-4 with diluted hydrochloric acid the separated matter was collected by filtration, dried by heating in vacuo and recrystallized from methanol, ether and hexane to provide 155 mg (yield 64%) of 2-mercapto-4,5,6-trimethoxybenzoxazole as reddish-purple needles.

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