Carbon Dioxide → N-[4-Methyl-5-(2-nitrooxy-ethyl)-thiazol-2-yl]-nicotinamide

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70% nitric acid (1.2 ml) was added to acetic anhydride (5 ml) while stirring and maintaining the temperature between 20-30° C. by external cooling. The mixture was cooled to −5° C. while stirring, followed by the addition of 1 gram of N-[5-(2-hydroxy-ethyl)-4-methyl-thiazol-2-yl]-nicotinamide. After 30 minutes at −5° C. the mixture was heated to 10° C. and stirred for one additional hour. The resulting mixture was poured into ice-water and stirred for 1 hour. Aliquots of NaHCO3 were added until CO2 evolution ceased. The orange-yellow water solution was extracted with three portions of 15 ml ethyl acetate. The combined extracts were dried over sodium sulfate and concentrated by evaporation.

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