Sodium Cyanide → HCID 12852741, compound

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A mixture of 4.8 g. (0.02 mole) of 5-chloro-2-phenethyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one in 25 ml of CHCl3, 1.0 g. (0.02 mole) of sodium cyanide in 5 ml of water and 0.015 g of tetrabutyl ammonium bromide was heated under reflux for 1 hour, while stirring. The mixture was then washed with water, dried, and concentrated to give a gummy brown residue, which was recrystallized from 300 ml of ethanol to give 0.15 g. of the named product, mp 228°-230 (softened at 210°).

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