Ethyl chloroacetate → Ethyl-5-[(hydroxyimino)methyl]-2-nitro-3-thiopheneacetate

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Potassium tertiary-butoxide (960 mg, 8.6 mmol) was dissolved in N,N-dimethylformamide (10 ml) and the solution cooled to −30° C. A solution of 5-nitro-2-thiophenecarboxaldehyde oxime (400 mg, 2.86 mmol) and ethyl chloroacetate (356 mg, 2.86 mmol) was added dropwise in dry N,N-dimethylformamide (5 ml) over 5 minutes. The reaction mixture was stirred at −30° C. for 30 minutes then quenched with 2M HCl (50 ml), diluted with ethyl acetate, washed with water, dried over magnesium sulfate and evaporated to dryness. The residue was chromatographed on silica gel using hexane/diethyl ether (1:2) as eluent to give 200 mg of ethyl-5-[(hydroxyimino)methyl]-2-nitro-3-thiopheneacetate as a tan solid. MS(ES): m/e 227 [M+H].

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