Nitrogen → 5-Methylsulfanylfuran-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester

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In a flame dried round-bottomed flask equipped with a magnetic stir bar and under inert atmosphere (N2), a solution of commercially available 5-nitro-furan-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (5.00 g, 27.01 mmol) in DMSO (34.5 mL) was treated at rt with sodium methanethiolate (2.05 g 27.82 mmol). The mixture was then stirred at 100° C. overnight, cooled down to rt and treated with sat. aq. NH4Cl (250 mL). The aqueous layer was extracted with EA (3×100 mL). The combined org. extracts were washed with sat. aq. NaHCO3 (100 mL) and brine (100 mL), dried over MgSO4, filtered, and the solvents were removed under reduced pressure. Purification of the residue by FC (70:30 hept-EA) gave the title compound. TLC: rf (70:30 hept-EA)=0.52. LC-MS-conditions 02: tR=0.96 min; [M+AcCN+H]+=228.23.

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