Hydrazoic acid → HCID 12806312, compound

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Reaction Steps

Methyl 4-acetamidobutyrate (8 g) is dissolved in benzene (80 ml). Phosphorus pentachloride (12 g, 0.055 mol) is added to the solution with stirring and ice-cooling. The mixture is stirring at room temperature for 1.5 hours and then concentrated to about 1/3 volume under reduced pressure. To the resulting iminochloride solution is added dropwise a solution of hydrogen azide in benzene (0.0173 mol/10 ml, 57.8 ml) with stirring and ice-cooling. The mixture is stirred at room temperature for 1 hour, allowed to stand for overnight and gently refluxed for 2 hours. The reaction mixture is concentrated and ice-water is added to the mixture. The mixture is extracted with chloroform. The chloroform solution is washed with water, dil. aqueous sodium hydroxide and then water and dried over magnesium sulfate. Chloroform is distilled off and the residue is purified by silica gel column chromatography (Wakogel C-200). The column is eluted with chloroform-methanol (50:1) to obtain methyl 4-(5-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrazol-1-yl)butyrate (5.7 g) as colorless liquid.

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