Taurine → 2-({2-Hydroxy-3-[(prop-2-en-1-yl)oxy]propyl}amino)ethane-1-sulfonic acid

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Into a 2 liter volume flask equipped with a stirrer, taurine (125 g), sodium hydroxide (40 g), deionized water (200 g) and ethylene glycol monoethyl ether (600 g) were charged. The contents were maintained at 60° C. while stirring, and a mixture of allyl glycidyl ether (114 g) and p-nitrosophenol (0.1 g) was dropwise added thereto in 20 minutes. Thereafter, stirring was continued for 2 hours. The reaction mixture of pH 9 was treated with an ionic exchange resin (Amberlite IR-120) to eliminate Na+ ion, whereby a solution of pH 4 was obtained. The solution was concentrated in a rotary evaporator to make a 7/10 volume so that needle crystals were precipitated. These crystals were identified to unreacted taurine by NMR and IR. The filtrate was poured into a 3 time volume of acetone to precipitate brown oily materials. The oily materials were collected and dried in vacuo as give N-(2-hydroxy-3-allyloxypropyl)taurine (96 g) of the formula: ##STR7##

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