Ethyl orthoformate → HCID 371811, compound

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Reaction Steps

To 5.0 g (0.024 mole) 5-chloro-6-hydrazino-3-nitropyrazinamine was added 50 ml of triethylorthoformate and the resulting suspension was heated at 100° for 1 hour. The reaction mixture was cooled, filtered and the dark brown solid washed with chloroform to give 3.9 g (77%) of 8-chloro-6-nitro-1,2,4-triazolo[4,3-a]pyrazine-5-amine as a brown solid, m.p. 220°, H' nmr (DMSO-d6): 9.65 (2H, broad singlet), 9.95 (1H, singlet); ms:m/e 214.

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