Sodium Hydroxide → HCID 135503683, compound

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Sodium thiomethoxide (0.5 g, 0.007 mole) is added to a solution of (E)-2,6-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-4-[2-[5-(methylthio)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl]ethenyl]-phenol (1.0 g, 0.0028 mole) in dimethylformamide (10 ml). The resulting mixture is heated to 75° C. for two hours. The solution is cooled and diluted with water (20 ml). The mixture is treated with 1M NaOH (6 ml) and the aqueous solution is washed with ether (2×). The aqueous layer is made acidic by the addition of cold 6 M HCl (3 ml) and the product is then extracted with a 1:1 ethyl acetate/diethyl ether mixture (2×). The combined organic layers are washed with brine and dried over MgSO4. Filtration and concentration in vacuo, followed by recrystallization from ethyl acetate/hexane gives 0.55 g of (E)-5-[2-[3,5-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-4-hydroxyphenyl]ethenyl]-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-(3H)-thione. (0.98 g theor., 57%), mp 248°-249° C.

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