Hydrochloric Acid → HCID 178468954, compound

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To a mixture of 1.2 g of 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole, 1.1 g of anhydrous potassium carbonate and 10 ml of N,N-dimethylformamide was added 0.5 g of ethyl p-(bromomethyl)benzoate followed by stirring at room temperature for 3 hours. The reaction mixture was made acidic with diluted hydrochloric acid and extracted with ethyl acetate. The extract was washed with water, dried over anhydrous magnesium sulfate and concentrated under reduced pressure. The residue was applied to silica gel column chromatography followed by eluting with a solvent mixture of toluene-ethyl acetate (9:1). The thus obtained crystals were recrystallized from toluene-n-hexane to give 230 mg of ethyl p-[(5-mercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)thiomethyl]benzoate.

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