Ethyl cyanoformate → Ethyl 3-isopropyl-[1,2,4]thiadiazole-5-carboxylate

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Ethyl cyanoformate (38.6 g, 0.39 mol) is added to a stirred solution of 5-isopropyl-[1,3,4]oxathiazolin-2-one (18.5 g, 0.13 mol) in p-xylene (180 ml). The mixture is refluxed for 6 hours and then the solvent is evaporated in vacuo to give crude ethyl 3-isopropyl-[1,2,4]thiadiazole-5-carboxylate (25.2 g, 97%) as a yellow oil, which is used without purification for the next step.

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